News by Hafiz Yatim

This followed a letter declaring the government was providing a guarantee for the loan — ex-KWAP official

Testifying before the court for the SRC International Sdn Bhd hearing today, the trial's 27th prosecution witness deputy accountant at the Prime Minister's Department, Putrajaya, Zarina Yusuf said Najib's last drawn salary in May 2018 was RM1,017,014.39.

This is the second time Justice Sequerah vacated fixed hearing date to make way for the hearing of Najib's SRC International Sdn Bhd case.

Najib will appear at the court of High Court judge Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah as the prosecution has submitted a motion to be heard first today.

An amount totalling US$681 million was allegedly deposited into Najib's accounts.

Justice Nazlan said the three criminal breach of trust (CBT) charges faced by Najib are not defective as an offence of money laundering and CBT charge is found to be valid following a Court of Appeal decision where in a similar case, the accused is charged with money laundering and CBT. There is no ambiguity on the positions of Najib being prime minister, finance minister and advisor emeritus of SRC, he added.

The defence based their argument on the grounds that the charges are defective and constitute an abuse of the court process.

The witness said he was a partner at Zulqarnain & Co from 1996 to 2017, and has been working with Habibul for 12 years.

KAJ Development's lawyer, Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla, said today he received a letter from the ministry yesterday informing that the ministry would need time to decide on the appeal as it had asked for six months to do so.

A three-member bench led by Justice Datuk Zabariah Mohd Yusoff reserved its judgment after hearing submissions by Najib's lawyers Harvinderjit Singh and Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, and deputy public prosecutors Ahmad Akram Gharib and Mohammad Mustaffa Kunyalam.