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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 — Jailed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will step into the witness stand today to defend himself against 25 criminal charges in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) trial. This includes over US$681 million (RM2.08 billion) of alleged 1MDB funds that entered his personal AmIslamic bank acct. In case you are confused, Najib was jailed because he was convicted in the SRC RM42 million case; this 1MDB trial is a separate case that is still going on, so anything the High Court decides in the 1MDB trial will not change his status as a prisoner.

Ironically a former is saying , the whole country and the legal system is centred around this 1MDB Case which has only revealed hundreds of millions of taxpayers money lost , years of unnecessary Court time , pain and hurt , weaknesses in the process and prosecutorial weaknesses etc.
https://newswav.com/article/najib-begins...412_l7shUq

1MDB trial: Ex-Malaysia PM Najib says he met Jho Low, Saudi royal on yacht just for afternoon tea.

KUALA LUMPUR - It was absurd to suggest that family and friends would be present during a meeting to plot siphoning billions from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), former prime minister Najib Razak told Malaysia’s High Court on Dec 3.
Najib said the meeting between him, two Saudi nationals and fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, was an informal afternoon tea on board a yacht at the invitation of the Saudi royal, Prince Turki.

Najib said he was with his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, his children Nor Ashman Razak and Nooryana Najwa, and stepson Riza Shahriz Abdul Aziz on a private family vacation in southern France in 2009. 

1MDB latest from KUALA LUMPUR - It was absurd to suggest that family & friends would be present during a meeting to plot siphoning billions from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), former prime minister Najib Razak told M'sia’s High Court on Dec 3, said the meeting between him, 2-Saudi nationals & fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, was an informal afternoon tea on board a yacht at the invitation of Saudi royal, Prince Turki.

Najib said he was with his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, his children Nor Ashman Razak and Nooryana Najwa, and stepson Riza Shahriz Abdul Aziz on a private family vacation in southern France in 2009.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asi...ernoon-tea


“Apart from my family, my friend Tan Sri Bustari Yusuf and his children also joined us,” he said in his witness statement on Dec 3.

“You can immediately visualise from my group membership that it was meant to be a private holiday to begin with.”

Najib, under an examination-in-chief by his lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, said he was pretty surprised when he received the invitation from Prince Turki for him and his family to join high tea on board the RM Elegance yacht.