KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here today heard how millions of ringgit had been transacted between 1MDB subsidiary SRC International and another company, Gandingan Mentari.
The amount transacted ranged from between RM5 million to RM40 million. These transactions took place between December 2014 to Feb 2015.
This was revealed during the cross-examination conducted by Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lawyer Harvinderjit Singh on Bank Negara investigating officer, Azizul Adzani Abdul Ghafar.
Azizul, 41, confirmed he had received documents about a number of bank accounts following a raid on the AmBank branch in Jalan Raja Chulan. The raid on the commercial bank was conducted on July 6, 2015.
Among documents that were seized following the raid included details of Najib’s bank accounts, SRC International and Gandingan Mentari.
Azizul had testified on Monday that he obtained all these documents from the branch manager R. Uma Devi.
During the cross-examination today, Azizul said he was at the bank from about 9am to 9pm.
He said there was another team which also took part in the raid but it concentrated on other sections of the bank.
Harvinderjit grilled him repeatedly on how the raid progressed and if Uma Devi had been asked to surrender specific transactions which took place involving the bank accounts. However, Azizul maintained all along that he did not ask for specific transactions.
“I only got orders to get documents relating to certain bank account numbers.”
“The branch manager gave these to me when I raided the bank in the morning.”
“Later in the day, she gave me more documents when I was still at the branch,” he said.
The trial will continue later this afternoon.
Najib is facing three counts of Criminal Breach of Trust (CBT) and one count of abuse of power over funds amounting to RM42 million linked to SRC International.
He is also facing three money laundering charges over the same funds.
The three CBT charges were read under Section 409 of the Penal Code, while the power abuse charge was read under Section 23 of the MACC Act 2009.
The Pekan member of parliament is also facing three money laundering, anti-terrorism financing and proceeds of unlawful activities act (AMLATFA) 2001.
He is liable to be sentenced up to 20-years jail, whipped and fined for the CBT charges, a maximum 20-years jail and fine of not less than five times the amount of bribe involved for the abuse of power charge, and jail time not exceeding 15-years and a fine of up to RM15 million for the money laundering charges.