Kuala Lumpur: Former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz today insisted she was never told that then prime minister Najib Razak would be receiving “donations” in his bank account.
Testifying in Najib’s 1MDB trial at the High Court, Zeti said she only met former AmBank managing director Cheah Tek Kuang “briefly” at her office on Jan 28, 2011.She said Cheah informed her that Najib had opened a savings and a current account with AmBank on Jan 13 that year. Cheah also told her that Najib’s current account had been given a code name, “AmPrivate Banking-MR”.
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