00:01The KL High Court heard fresh testimony in the corruption trial of former Prime Minister Tanshri
00:06Muhyiddin Yassin as a bank official took the stand to detail large cash deposits made into
00:11Bersatu's account. AmBank Assistant Manager Noor Paisa Osman testified on Wednesday that a total
00:17of 6 million ringgit was deposited into Bersatu's current account at AmBank's AmCorp Mall branch
00:22through 10 check transactions made between February and November 2022. The deposits came
00:26in denominations of 500,001 million ringgit each. The account, she confirmed, was opened
00:32under Bersatu's name on the 18th of September 2018. The witness identified six authorised
00:38signatories on the account, including Muhyiddin, Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir and four other party
00:43officials. When asked by Deputy Public Prosecutor Nuralis Mat, who was Bersatu President during
00:49the period the money came in, Noor Paisa's answered Tanshri Muhyiddin. During cross-examination,
00:54Muhyiddin's lawyer, Datuk Amir Hamza Arshad, pressed the witness on the nature of the transactions
00:59and she held firm. The witness confirmed that no enquiries had been received from the registrar
01:04of societies regarding Bersatu's finances. She could not, however, recall whether Bank Nagara
01:10had made similar enquiries. Amir put it plainly to the witness that all check transactions were
01:15without issue, that everything appeared proper, and that the transactions were, in her words,
01:20normal banking transactions. She agreed on all counts. The lawyer also drew attention to the
01:25six signatories, establishing that no single person had sole control over the account.
01:30The hearing before Justice Noor Ruin Ahmad Nordin is set to resume on the 13th of April.
