KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will know on March 3 if he has to continue with his criminal trial over the removal of key information from the auditor-general’s 2016 audit report on 1Malaysia Development Berhad .
Najib is accused of having abused his position as prime minister and finance minister between February 22 and February 26, 2016 by allegedly instructing for amendments to the 1MDB audit report — which was already ready to be presented to the Public Accounts Committee — before it was finally presented to the PAC, in order to protect himself from civil or criminal action over his role in the handling of 1MDB operations.
While he had testified as the 15th prosecution witness in Najib's trial, Arul Kanda is currently still an accused person in the same case where he had been charged with abetting or helping Najib commit the offence. This trial started on November 18, 2019, with 16 prosecution witnesses having testified over 43 days before the prosecution rested its case on September 7, 2022.
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