1MDB ex-CEO denies striking deal with investigators to 'crucify' Najib in trial, says emboldened by truthFormer 1MDB CEO Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi is pictured at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on September 3, 2020. ― Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
Najib’s lead defence lawyer, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, today repeatedly accused Shahrol Azral of having struck a deal to testify against Najib in order to avoid getting charged over the 1MDB scandal, but Shahrol Azral denied this and even at one point used a Malay saying “Shafee claimed that Shahrol Azral had committed acts that amounted to criminal breach of trust as the 1MDB director and could have been charged for these, but Shahrol Azral disagreed.
Shafee: I’m putting to you that you were given a deal by the investigating agency for you to be the principal witness in this case so they will go soft on you, otherwise you would have been charged.Shafee continued to press Shahrol Azral later with the suggestion that he had avoided prosecution by testifying against Najib.
Shahrol Azral also disagreed that he should have been charged along with Goldman Sachs and the related individuals, but Shafee again pushed the idea of a purported deal having been made. Datuk Seri Najib Razak is pictured at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on September 3, 2020. ― Picture by Ahmad ZamzahuriLater during re-examination, lead prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram touched on Shafee’s suggestion that Shahrol Azral had allegedly breached his duties as both 1MDB CEO and director and would therefore allegedly be liable to both criminal prosecution and civil suit, before going on to ask what Najib’s stance was.
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