The criminal trial of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak involving the alleged misappropriation of funds from SRC International Sdn Bhd enters its 45th day today at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysiakini brings you live reports of the proceedings.
Proceedings begin with 55th witness taking the stand
9.21am - Ranjit Singh testifies he had represented former MCA president Ling Liong Sik in a suit by Najib.
9.17am - DPP V Sithambaram informs the court that the 55th witness, lawyer Ranjit Singh, will take the stand today for examination-in-chief, instead of the 54th witness, former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu.
9.15am - Najib Abdul Razak enters the dock as proceedings begin.
Najib arrives in court
9.07am - Accused Najib Abdul Razak arrives in court and takes a seat at the front row of the public gallery.
Awaiting the beginning of proceedings is Najib's lead defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah and other members of the defence.
Also present are Attorney-General Tommy Thomas and other DPPs.
Attention today will be on the approach adopted by the defence in the cross-examination of former AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu at former premier Najib Abdul Razak's RM42 million SRC International trial today.
As proceedings before Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali enter the 45th day, the defence will have benefited from going through a trove of BlackBerry chats made available to them on Thursday last week.
On Thursday, deputy public prosecutor V Sithambaram informed the court that the prosecution had provided the defence with the chat logs, which the latter previously said contained recorded conversations related to Najib's seven charges of abuse of power, graft, and money laundering.
Yu, the 54th prosecution witness, delivered a series of critical testimonies last week.
She said that fugitive financier Low Taek Jho had asked her to hide Najib’s identity in the former premier's account statements with AmBank in 2011.
Yu also testified that she refused to delete her chat history despite being asked by Low to do so, and that Najib’s accounts were closed in 2015 due to red flags and bad press over the allegedly large transfers of foreign currency into the accounts.
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