00:00A Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission investigating officer told the High Court today he had advised
00:07the government to seek mutual legal assistance from Singapore over Najib Razak's RM2.6 billion
00:13donation case.
00:15Nasharuddin Amir told the former Prime Minister's 1MDB trial that a further probe was necessary
00:20despite a 2015 meeting with the alleged donor Prince Saud Abdulaziz Al Saud at a Saudi Arabian
00:27palace.
00:28Nasharuddin said he and fellow colleagues Fikri Abrahim and Hafaz Nazar, their superior
00:34current MACC chief Azam Baki, and then-deputy public prosecutor Zulkifli Ahmad, were in
00:39the Middle Eastern country to investigate four purported donation letters, dated between
00:44February 1, 2011 and June 1, 2014, which were said to have been signed and sent by Saud
00:51to Najib.
00:53According to Nasharuddin, the team met Saud, his legal representative Muhammad Abdullah
00:57al-Khoman, and fugitive Tan Kim Loong at the palace and took their statements but was
01:02not satisfied as they had failed to supply banking documentation to support their assertions.
01:08However, he did not say whether the government acted on his requests.
01:12Najib is standing trial on 25 charges of abuse of power and money laundering over funds amounting
01:18to RM2.28 billion, deposited in his Ambank accounts between February 2011 and December
01:242014.
01:26The hearing continues before Justice Colin Lawrence-Sekera on February 24.
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