Day 71: Najib denies being in a hurry to bring SRC under Minister of Finance Inc

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There was some indication they working investment in energy like coal, they needed additional capital to secure investment.You agree that was their intention, to look for coal investment, but you were never told of an actual good progress of SRC in a concrete fashion?- Proceedings resume in the afternoon, with the prosecution expected to resume cross-examination of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.

"Yang Arif will see in the Anglo-American system is not to curtail any kind of defence, doesn't matter how little it is. Even if its an afterthought, because that would be a prejudice," Shafee adds. The former prime minister's lead defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah submits this over why the High Court should allow the accused's bid for an Australian handwriting expert to examine the disputed signatures and determine its authenticity.

Section 71 states that if a witness denies or does not recall the execution of a document, its execution may be proved by other evidence.Allow Najib's alleged signatures to be examined - Defence- The High Court should allow the Australian handwriting expert to examine Najib Abdul Razak's alleged signatures on key SRC International documents, because actual weight of this evidence would only be determined at end of trial, the defence argues.

He says this when submitting against the defence's application to call for an expert witness to examine Najib Abdul Razak's signatures on documents related to the company. Yesterday, during the defence's submissions in support of their application, lawyer Harvinderjit Singh claimed that many things were not made known to them before the commencement of the trial.

The government attorney said that the former chairperson of SRC International board of directors, Ismee Ismail, had testified in court that he recognised Najib's signatures as he had previously affected instructions signed by the former prime minister during Ismee's time as a Tabung Haji chairperson.

The DPP is submitting on why the court should not allow Najib's application for an Australian handwriting expert to examine the authenticity of the accused's signatures on 13 key SRC documents such as minutes of SRC.The prosecution and defence are expected to resume submissions over the former prime minister's application for an Australian handwriting expert to examine the authenticity of the accused's signatures on 13 key documents in the RM42 million SRC International trial.

 

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