I signed blank cheques as SRC subsidiary’s director, says witness

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Suboh Yassin says the instructions to do so came from then prime minister and Umno president Najib Razak through then CEO Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil.  Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/01/22/i-signed-blank-cheques-as-src-subsidiarys-director-says-witness/   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #SRCInternational #NajibRazak

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00:00A former director of an SRC International Sundaram Berhad subsidiary company told the

00:07High Court that he signed four blank cheques before a total of RM19.5 million was disbursed

00:13to UMNO. Suboh Yassin, also a director of Jundala Pingiran Sundaram Berhad, said signing

00:19blank cheques was a common practice when he was with the company between 2014 and 2019.

00:26He was testifying as the second witness in a suit brought by SRC International, JPSB

00:33and Gandingan Mentari Sundaram Berhad against the UMNO headquarters and its Selangor chapter.

00:39He said he knew the practice was improper but was told by Nik Faisal Arif Kamil that

00:43there were instructions from higher authorities, namely Najib Razak. Nik Faisal was the SRC

00:50International's CEO and also a director of JPSB and GMSB at the time.

00:56The plaintiffs claimed that the sums of RM16 million and RM3.5 million were wrongly paid

01:02to the UMNO headquarters and Selangor UMNO purportedly for corporate social responsibility

01:07activities. On Monday, the plaintiffs said UMNO received money from a gargantuan slush

01:13fund worth RM4 billion created from funds diverted, embezzled and abused from SRC International's

01:20subsidiaries.

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