RM42 million moved to Najib’s AmBank account
12.17pm: Farhan asks Norhayati to verify statements from the account.
12.11pm: Sulaiman ends his questioning.
Farhan Read begins his cross-examination of Norhayati by asking her whether these transactions were made before GE13 or after. She said she was not sure.
11.35am: Norhayati confirms that RM5 million from Ihsan Perdana’s Affin Bank accounts were moved to Najib’s ‘906’ AmBank account. Another RM37 million was moved to his ‘880’ account.
11.32am: From January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015, RM27 million was transferred on December 26, 2014; RM5 million on December 26, 2014; and RM10 million on February 10, 2015.
11.15am: Reading the statement for account No. 106180001108 from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015, Norhayati said there were credit transfers as following:
* RM40 million from Gandingan Mentari on December 24, 2014
* RM5 million from Gandingan Mentari on February 5, 2015
* RM5 million from Gandingan Mentari on February 6, 2015
Prosecutor Sulaiman Kho questions her.
11.18am: She goes through transactions made by Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd’s account held in Affin Bank.
11.07am: Norhayati Mohd Yunus from Affin Bank is the next witness. She is also the 30th witness.
10.39am: Shafee asks the judge to stand down the witness and continue his cross-examination tomorrow as lawyer Harvinderjit Singh, who is supposed to conduct the cross-examination, is unable to be in court today.
DPP V. Sithambaram also agrees to this and tells judge Nazlan that he can proceed with the next witness and Amirul can be cross-examined tomorrow.
Nazlan allows this and gives the court a recess of five minutes. – the malaysian insight
‘I was under pressure to expedite SRC loan’
10.34am – “I was asked by management to expedite the application,” says witness Amirul Imran Ahmat, adding that he was under pressure to prepare investment papers for the KWAP board on the loans to SRC International.
“There were a few meetings within a short span of time. Usually, if I miss one meeting, I can go for the next one. But here, I have to rush to every meeting.
“There was a lot of pressure to expedite the whole matter,” he tells the court.
Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali allows for the witness to be called back at a later date for cross-examination by defence counsel Harvinderjit Singh (photo).
The judge allows the application by Najib Abdul Razak’s lead counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah to postpone the cross-examination, as Harvinderjit is absent from today’s proceedings due to food poisoning.
The prosecution raises no objection.
‘KWAP only received a quarter of documents requested from SRC’
10.32am – Witness Amirul Imran Ahmat tells the court that he only received about a quarter of the documents requested from SRC International when preparing the approval for its loan applications.
Amirul says under examination from deputy public prosecutor Ishak Mohd Yusoff that he had to rely on whatever he received from SRC International to prepare the investment papers to be presented to KWAP’s investment panel.
Ishak: Looking at the email exchanges as per your witness statement, you applied for a lot of information (from SRC International). Did you receive them?
Amirul: I receive some, not all.
Ishak: In percentage, how much did you receive in estimation?
Amirul: 25 percent.
Ishak: So you had to act based on this 25 percent?
Amirul: Yes.
Witness explains why RM4b loaned to SRC, not RM3.95b
10.20am – KWAP loaned SRC International RM4 billion instead of the RM3.95 billion originally sought because of the two separate applications, testifies witness Amirul Imran Ahmat.
Under examination by deputy public prosecutor Ishak Mohd Yusoff, Amirul says that KWAP first approved RM2 billion from the initial request for RM3.95 billion.
KWAP then agreed to SRC International’s second application for RM2 billion, he adds, bringing the total to RM4 billion.
‘RM4b to SRC is the largest KWAP loan I have ever seen’
10.12am – Witness Amirul Imran Ahmat (photo) tells the court that the RM4 billion loan given out by KWAP to SRC International is the biggest he has ever seen throughout his service.
Amirul then wraps up reading from his witness statement.
‘Najib signed guarantee letter for additional RM2b’
10am – Najib Abdul Razak signed the government guarantee letter for SRC International’s second loan of RM2 billion from KWAP, according to witness Amirul Imran Ahmat.
Amirul testifies that Najib signed the letter in his capacity as then-prime minister and finance minister.
The loan agreement document, he says, was signed between then-KWAP CEO Azian Mohd Noh and SRC International director Suboh Md Yassin.
9.34am – Amirul says that on March 22, 2012, he received an email from SRC International director Nik Faisal Ariff Nik Othman Ariff Kamil to the KWAP CEO stating that Najib had made a decision on the additional RM2 billion loan.
The witness testifies that he was ordered by then-superior Ahmad Norhisham Hassan to prepare a ‘surat pekeliling‘ (circular) on the loan.
“It is to be one lump sum, based on discussion with the prime minister,” he says.
Amirul adds that Najib was the chairperson of 1MDB’s board of advisers, in relation to the panel investment paper he prepared for the loan. – mkini
THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT / MKINI
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