High Court: Najib's Saudi King donation story failed to convince

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KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s failure to obtain official confirmation regarding the purported personal donation from the late Saudi King dismantled the crux of his defence, the High Court found.

Instead, Najib only took the words from fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or better known as Jho Low, that the monies he received was from Arab royalty.

“Importantly, it should be immediately realised, however, that King Abdullah did not articulate the form of the support. “Secondly, there was no evidence of the accused attempting to verify this intention attributed to King Abdullah with anyone. Not with the King directly, nor with any of the government officials who could have easily checked to verify the information for the Prime Minister.

“And there has been a total absence of any official governmental confirmation that the accused, as the Prime Minister had in actual fact been receiving in his personal account personal donation from King Abdullah during the relevant period, ” he added.

 

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