All eyes will be on the ongoing cross-examination of former SRC International director Suboh Md Yassin as Najib Abdul Razak trial involving RM42 million from the company, a former subsidiary of 1MDB, enters its 31st day today.
As proceedings are set to resume before Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali at 9am this morning, observers will keenly follow the grilling of the elderly 42nd witness by veteran defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah.
Interest in the case is assured by Suboh’s testimony yesterday afternoon, where he agreed with the possibility advanced by Shafee that then company CEO Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil may have forged the witness’ signature between 2014 and 2015.
Summary of Najib’s SRC RM42 million case
Under the relentless questioning by Shafee, Suboh concurred with the possible ruse on Nik Faisal’s part in order to authorise millions of ringgit in transfers between the accounts of the 1MDB-linked company, its subsidiary Gandingan Mentari Sdn Bhd and its CSR partner Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd.
However, this oral evidence may have clashed with Suboh’s own testimony during examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor (DPP) Ishak Mohd Yusoff in early morning proceedings yesterday, where the witness testified that he had put his signature on the related transactions’ bank documents, which he said were presented to him for his authorisation.
Another area that the defence has not gone into yesterday but that they may touch on today is in regards to Suboh’s testimony that he fled Malaysia in 2015 for three years and only returned to the country after the 14th general elections last year.
[More to follow] - Mkini
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