Former prime minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak arrived for the SRC trial at Kuala Lumpur High Court March 25, 2024. — Picture by Miera ZulyanaKUALA LUMPUR, March 27 — A former director of SRC International Sdn Bhd told the High Court today he saw Datuk Seri Najib Razak as a ‘chess grandmaster’ in the scheme of things that took place within the company.
“That was transformed into the Nuclear Energy Plan Implementation Office directly under the PM’s Department,” he said under cross examination by Najib’s counsel Muhammad Farhan Muhammad Shafee. Shahrol Azral, however, said he could not speak for the other company directors if they had the same presumption.
“So my frame of mind was if this is what Najib wanted done, he should know something more than I do,” he said. SRC, under its new management, had filed legal action against Najib and its former directors Datuk Suboh Md Yassin, Mohammed Azhar Osman Khairuddin, Nik Faisal, Datuk Che Abdullah @ Rashidi Che Omar, Shahrol Azral and Tan Sri Ismee Ismail in May 2021.
SRC as a plaintiff in the writ of summons had alleged that Najib had abused his power and obtained personal benefits from SRC International’s funds as well as misappropriated the funds. Najib was SRC’s Emeritus Advisor from May 1, 2012, until March 4, 2019.