Lawyer Gurdial Singh Nijar says the former prime minister only filed a civil suit last December after Joanna Yu had testified against him in the SRC trial.
“The action was filed after Yu had given evidence on behalf of the prosecution between July and August last year,” the lawyer, who is representing Yu, said in his submission. Najib alleged that Yu had communicated the details of four of his five bank accounts to fugitive financier Low Taek Jho as he was not the authorised person to manage his accounts.
Apandi’s predecessor Abdul Gani Patail had set up a task force in July 2015 to probe into the RM2.6 billion found in Najib’s private accounts following revelations by the foreign media. Last month, High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali sentenced Najib to 12 years jail and fined him RM210 million after finding him guilty on all seven charges.The 1MDB trial where Najib faces four charges of abusing his position to obtain gratification totalling RM2.3 billion and 21 counts of money laundering involving the same money is on-going.
AmBank’s counsel Yoong Sin Min submitted that Najib was using this suit to bolster his defence in the SRC criminal case.
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