He is the 10th prosecution witness in Najib's trial involving the alleged misappropriation of RM2.28bil from 1MDB, and was scheduled to take the stand on Monday .
Shafee quoted some lines from the statement which has yet to be read to the court in its entirety, where Hazem stated that fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho – also known as Jho Low – had told him that 1MDB was set up to channel funds to Najib's political party, Umno. "The evidence is all hearsay with perhaps one or two lines that are 50-50. Hazem will say 'this is what Jho Low told me'. And if we ask him whether that is the truth, he would say 'why don't you ask him ?’Shafee then made an oral application to have the lines omitted from the witness statement.
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