The former prime minister says the fugitive businessman was never authorised to manage his accounts there. FMTNews Ambank Najib SRCInternational
KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Najib Razak told the High Court in his SRC International trial today that he was taken by surprise when he discovered that AmBank had communicated with fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho about matters related to his bank accounts.
“Jho Low chose not to tell me about his involvement in my accounts. I only came to know about it during the course of my trial,” he said, adding that the Penang businessman had taken “active steps” to hide the matter from him. “If news of the account had broken out, the opposition at the time would have used it against me,” he said, adding that the central bank had not informed him of the situation surrounding his accounts.
“He took the responsibility of finding a person that could be trusted, and I left it to him,” he said.
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