00:00 Federal Police Investigator Assistant Commissioner Fu Weimin revealed in the Kuala Lumpur High
00:07 Court on Tuesday further details of his questioning of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib
00:13 Razak in 2018 in the 1MDB corruption case.
00:17 Fu said that during his interrogation, Najib said he decided to answer questions involving
00:22 five checks for five payouts from his bank account because he was already charged in
00:27 court with money laundering in September 2018.
00:31 Najib's counsel Tan Sri Mohammed Shavi Abdullah then read out excerpts from Najib's statement
00:36 to Fu, where Najib said he was ready to answer the questions if he was not charged.
00:41 Najib said he believed it would contravene the legal system and therefore he decided
00:45 to answer the questions in court.
00:48 When questioned by Shafi, Fu denied that there was a higher power who instructed him to ask
00:53 Najib about the transactions.
00:55 Fu said his questioning about the transactions was part of Phase 1 of the Tanner investigation,
01:00 and he had the duty to ask the questions as an investigating officer.
01:05 Fu agreed to Shafi's suggestion that Najib had told him that he did not know Tanner Finance
01:10 Corporation belonged to Joe Low or Eric Tan.
01:13 Fu said the police found out that the account was owned by Tan and not the Saudis through
01:17 cooperation with Singaporean authorities.
01:20 The five payout transactions were for UMNO, Orb Solution, Samara Consortium Satu and A
01:26 Property Tycoon, amounting to about 22.7 million ringgit.
01:31 Najib faces four corruption charges involving 2.3 billion ringgit from one MDB and 21 money
01:38 laundering charges involving the same amount.
01:41 Najib was charged with embezzlement.
01:42 He was charged with embezzlement.
01:43 He was charged with embezzlement.
01:43 [End of Audio]
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