'Unemployed' Rosmah received large sums of money in her account, court hears

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The prosecution will prove that an "unemployed" Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor received large sums of money into her current account at Affin Bank Berhad and used it to pay telephone and credit card bills incurred by her and members of her family.  Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib also said in his opening statement on the first day of Rosmah’s money laundering trial before Justice K. Muniandy on Thursday (Aug 24) that the prosecution will prove that the accused when questioned by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers made false statements concerning the monies which she had paid into her account.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3dapjx9b  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 The prosecution will prove that an unemployed Datin Sri Rosmah Mansoor received large sums

00:08 of money into her current account at Afin Bank Berhard and used it to pay telephone

00:13 and credit card bills incurred by her and members of her family.

00:18 Deputy Public Prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib said in his opening statement on the first

00:24 day of Rosmah's money laundering trial before Justice K. Muniandi on Thursday that the wife

00:30 of Datin Sri Najib Razak had no independent source of any lawful income and the sums deposited

00:37 are wholly disproportionate to the accused's means.

00:41 He told the court that Rosmah used the services of Roslan Sohari, who was the residential house

00:47 manager of the Sri Padana Complex in Putrajaya at that time, to make the deposits on her

00:53 behalf.

00:54 Ahmad Akram added that the monies in question were never disclosed to the Inland Revenue

01:00 Board (LHDN) as required by written law and neither was any income tax ever paid on these

01:07 monies.

01:08 Therefore, Ahmad Akram said the prosecution will prove that the accused, when questioned

01:14 by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers, made false statements concerning

01:19 the monies which she had paid into her account.

01:23 71-year-old Rosmah is facing 12 money laundering charges involving over RM7.1 million and five

01:31 counts of failure to declare her income to the LHDN.

01:36 For more information, visit www.fema.org.uk/covid19.

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