KUALA LUMPUR: Najib Razak’s former special officer told the former prime minister’s 1MDB trial today that Low Taek Jho had given him letters, allegedly from the Saudi Arabian government, to close the matter if any investigation were to be initiated into the sovereign fund four years ago.
Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin, in testifying against his former boss, said the fugitive businessman wanted the alleged letters to be used as assurance to close the investigations into Petro Saudi International.
“Jho Low gave me and Datuk Seri’s principle private secretary, Azlin Alias, the letters in early 2015 as part of the damage control after the 1MDB issue was widely reported in the New York Times, Sarawak Report and Wall Street Journal,” he said in his witness statement.
Amhari also told the High Court that a special task force had been set up in 2015 to probe 1MDB.
The task force consisted of then attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail, then inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar, then Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Abu Kassim Mohamed, and then Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz.
Najib is standing trial on 25 charges of power abuse and money laundering over alleged 1MDB funds in his bank account.
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