KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 — No company owned by the Minister of Finance Inc other than 1Malaysia Development Berhad ever saw then-finance minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s direct intervention, a former high-ranking ministry official said today.
Siti Zauyah said this while testifying as the 26th prosecution witness in former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s trial over the misappropriation of more than RM2 billion of 1MDB funds. “This is because in other MoF Inc companies , the finance minister is not directly involved like in this 1MDB company, where YAB finance minister namely Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Haji Abdul Razak had appointed himself to be the chairman of the board of advisers to 1MDB.
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