Najib's lawyer Wan Aizuddin Wan Mohammad had asked for an adjournment and told the court that Harvinderjit, who had been cross-examining former AmBank relationship liaison manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping, was sick.
The unanimous decision was made by a three-member appeal court bench led by Justice Datuk Abdul Rahman Sebli, with the other two judges being Justice Datuk Kamardin Hashim and Justice Datuk Zabariah Mohd Yusof.
Court overruling prosecution's objection.
Yu said she only took instructions from Nik Faisal, who is the mandate holder of Najib’s accounts with the bank.
Justice Nazlan will today listen to submissions from Attorney General Tommy Thomas and Najib's lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah on whether the former premier should apologise to court for his Facebook posting on July 15 defending his purchase of RM3.3 million jewellery in Italy which he allegedly claims is for an undisclosed royal family.
High Court judge Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah had twice within a week refused applications to delay the 1MDB trial.
The order was made by Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan following an application made by DPP Aaron Chelliah.
I went there in 2011 to help open the former premier’s bank accounts...
The suit by Deepak and Rajesh, who are directors of Carpet Raya, follows claims by them that Najib, Rosmah and Azeez had forced the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) to exert pressure on them to settle taxes accrued when Carpet Raya is said to be used as a proxy company for Najib and Rosmah in several land and business deals.
"One funder [for YR1M] was 1MDB. The second was companies within the Genting Group. We also received a small amount of money from Petronas — that was for very specific projects."
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