Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who is leading Najib's team of lawyers, also had some choice words for Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi - who was 1MDB top executive from 2009 to 2013 - when he took the witness stand to be cross-examined.
At one point when Shahrol tried to jump the gun and explain himself further Shafee stopped him, saying: "Hold your horses...I want to peel this like an onion...layer by layer.
"At the end of it, I want to see whether you cry or I cry...or we all cry."
His remark set the tone for the cross-examination and Shafee went into attack mode immediately.
He put the ninth prosecution witness through a series of questions on how the audit on 1MDB was done by the National Audit Department in 2009/2010.
Shahrol kept saying that Low had instructed him to be extra careful when divulging anything to the auditors and to prevent any information from leaking out.
The 49-year-old also admitted that Low had instructed him to write a letter which essentially hampered the auditor general from going through 1MDB's accounts thoroughly in 2010.
The roadblocks placed were to the extent that auditors were prevented from photocopying documents to facilitate their job.
Asked if this had led to tension between 1MDB and the auditor general, Shahrol said: "There was no tension but I was told by Jho Low that whatever information gathered during this exercise will be used against Najib."
Shafee: This was the mantra Jho Low kept repeating right?
Shahrol: Yes
Shafee: You wrote a letter in July 2010 that all confidential information about 1MDB to third parties must be approved by the board of directors and endorsed by Najib?
Shahrol: Yes, I signed the letter but the contents came from Jho Low
Shafee: You wrote this even though there was another letter which had been signed by Najib himself that he agreed for due diligence and an audit to be carried out on 1MDB by the then National Audit Department?
Shahrol: I wrote it based on Jho Low's instructions, which I believed came from the shareholder (Najib)
Shafee: He was trying to be obstructive and you abetted him?
Shahrol: I complied because I thought it was what Najib wanted.
Shafee: Isn't it incumbent on you as the CEO to take responsibility and find out from Najib himself?
Shahrol: I already did...in my mind Jho Low and Najib were in constant touch and there was no point in double checking everything with Najib. When instructions came from Jho Low, I thought it was from Najib.
Shafee: Were you on messaging mode wiith Najib?
Shahrol: I wished him once a year...happy birthday..I can't recall any other significant messages to him.
Shafee: So you foolishly believed everything Jho Low said. Why?
Shahrol: Because the actions that resulted from Jho Low's talking points were consistent with actions taken by Najib..never once after the fact was I told by Najib that I shouldn't have done something.
Shafee: Surely you couldn't have been as blind as a bat to blindly follow whatever Jho Low was telling you to do. This Jho Low was treating 1MDB as his grand father's company and you, the CEO who earned RM99,000 per month and got 18-month bonuses, just listened to him blindly and never checked anything with Najib.
Shahrol: I disagree
Shafee then hammered Shahrol over the fact that US$700 million was sent to Low's company called Good Star in 2009.
He chided Shahrol that the auditors would have discovered this if they had been given a chance to go through 1MDB books and Shahrol said "No comment" to all of Shafee's accusations about him being in cahoots with Low and how the entire audit process unraveled.
Najib, 66, is charged with misappropriating RM2.28 billion of 1MDB funds, money laundering and abuse of power.
The trial before High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah continues.