An investigating officer in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's case involving the misappropriation of RM2.3bil of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds told the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Tuesday (Nov 14) that the former premier had wanted to answer the questions regarding some transactions in his personal bank accounts in court.
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00:00 Federal Police Investigator Assistant Commissioner Fu Weimin revealed in the Kuala Lumpur High
00:07 Court on Tuesday further details of his questioning of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib
00:13 Razak in 2018 in the 1MDB corruption case.
00:17 Fu said that during his interrogation, Najib said he decided to answer questions involving
00:22 five checks for five payouts from his bank account because he was already charged in
00:27 court with money laundering in September 2018.
00:31 Najib's counsel Tan Sri Mohammed Shavi Abdullah then read out excerpts from Najib's statement
00:36 to Fu, where Najib said he was ready to answer the questions if he was not charged.
00:41 Najib said he believed it would contravene the legal system and therefore he decided
00:45 to answer the questions in court.
00:48 When questioned by Shafi, Fu denied that there was a higher power who instructed him to ask
00:53 Najib about the transactions.
00:55 Fu said his questioning about the transactions was part of Phase 1 of the Tanner investigation,
01:00 and he had the duty to ask the questions as an investigating officer.
01:05 Fu agreed to Shafi's suggestion that Najib had told him that he did not know Tanner Finance
01:10 Corporation belonged to Joe Low or Eric Tan.
01:13 Fu said the police found out that the account was owned by Tan and not the Saudis through
01:17 cooperation with Singaporean authorities.
01:20 The five payout transactions were for UMNO, Orb Solution, Samara Consortium Satu and A
01:26 Property Tycoon, amounting to about 22.7 million ringgit.
01:31 Najib faces four corruption charges involving 2.3 billion ringgit from one MDB and 21 money
01:38 laundering charges involving the same amount.
01:41 Najib was charged with embezzlement.
01:42 He was charged with embezzlement.
01:43 He was charged with embezzlement.
01:43 [End of Audio]