• 9 months ago
The Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday (Feb 19) was told that not all documents obtained by the prosecution from foreign countries during the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) investigation were turned over to Datuk Seri Najib Razak's defence team.

Senior superintendent Nur Aida Arifin of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) testified that several documents obtained from other countries through Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) were not handed over as they were irrelevant to her investigation.

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00:00 A senior superintendent of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission told the Kuala Lumpur High Court
00:06 on Monday that she did not hand over some banking documents obtained from two countries
00:11 to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's defence team as they were not relevant to the case.
00:17 37-year-old Nur Aida Arafin said the documents were received from Hong Kong and Switzerland
00:22 through mutual legal assistance to help investigate the one Malaysia development Berhad case facing
00:28 the former prime minister.
00:30 The 49th prosecution witness said this when cross-examined by lawyer Tan Sri Mohammed
00:34 Shafi Abdullah at Najib's trial for alleged corruption and money laundering involving
00:39 2.3 billion ringgit, belonging to 1MDB.
00:44 When asked why she didn't provide the documents to the defence, Nur Aida replied that she
00:48 had briefed the prosecution team on the case and the prosecution agreed that the documents
00:53 were not relevant to the case.
00:55 Nur Aida was testifying in Najib's trial where he is facing four charges of using his position
01:00 to obtain bribes amounting to 2.3 billion ringgit of 1MDB funds and 21 charges of money
01:08 laundering involving the same amount.
01:11 The trial before Judge Datuk Kallan Lawrence Sekwerat continues on February 26.
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