1MDB TRIAL | A former member of Low Taek Jho’s (Jho Low) inner circle claimed that the fugitive businessperson was behind the Arab letter linked to the purported promise of a royal donation to then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.
1MDB’s former general counsel Jasmine Loo told the Kuala Lumpur High Court that Low was the one who directed his alleged late associate, Kee Kok Thiam, to prepare a copy of the letter to explain away the inflow of large amounts of funds into Najib’s account.
During this afternoon’s trial of the RM2.27 billion 1MDB corruption case against Najib, Loo testified that she saw the whole thing transpire when she was asked by Low to attend a meeting with the businessperson as well as Kee and two others in a room at Business Centre in Mayfair Hotel, London, in 2015.
The 50th prosecution witness said that the other two attendees were Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd director Shamsul Anwar Sulaiman and Yayasan Rakyat 1Malaysia (YR1M) projects director Dennis See.
Shamsul and See were witnesses in the RM42 million SRC International corruption case, in which Najib was found guilty and is currently serving a jail sentence for since August 2022.
Loo claimed that, during the meeting, Shamsul had asked Low how to resolve the issue of inflow of money into Najib’s account, which was alleged to have been from Putrajaya Perdana and SRC.
Loo alleged that Shamsul further told Low that many quarters had asked him (Shamsul) about the money inflow being allegedly from 1MDB.
“After that, Low directed Kee to prepare a confirmatory letter from Prince Saud to state that the funds that entered Najib’s account were a donation from Saudi Arabia.
“After that, I left momentarily with Low to discuss a separate matter. However, when I reentered the same room at the Business Centre, I saw Kee preparing the draft Prince Saud letter,” Loo told trial judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah.
In both the SRC case and 1MDB court cases, Najib maintained that he was promised the Arab donation and believed that the funds coming into his account were from Saudi royalty.
Najib is on trial for four counts of abuse of power and 21 counts of money laundering involving RM2.27 billion from 1MDB.
For the four abuse of power charges, the former Pekan MP is alleged to have committed the offences at AmIslamic Bank Bhd’s Jalan Raja Chulan branch in Bukit Ceylon, Kuala Lumpur, between Feb 24, 2011, and Dec 19, 2014.
On the 21 money laundering counts, Najib is purported to have committed the offences at the same bank between March 22, 2013, and Aug 30, 2013. - Mkini
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