PUTRAJAYA, Jan 23 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak today denied he had wanted to put then finance minister II Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Mohamad Hanadzlah into “cold storage” in 2016,...
Najib denies ‘cold storage’ bid on then finance minister II Husni Hanadzlah, wanted ‘tougher nut’ Johari Ghani to solve 1MDB’s debts
Najib today said he had chosen Husni to be finance minister II as the latter had some banking experience and had been deputy finance minister for some time, adding that Husni was finance minister II for around seven to eight years. Shafee noted that Najib had instead said Husni was not happy about his plans to transfer him to another ministry.“And I know for a fact that Johari Ghani, being a very experienced corporate figure, has been involved in restructuring of companies, has been involved in reviving companies, and has extensive corporate experience in this regard, more than Husni.
Asked by Shafee if Johari was “easier to push over” than Husni, Najib laughed before saying: “If you knew the two characters, I would say Johari Ghani is a tougher nut”.Najib noted that Johari is currently the head of the government’s 1MDB Asset Recovery Taskforce, apart from being minister of plantation and commodities.
Previously, Husni told the 1MDB trial that Najib had in early 2015 asked him to help solve 1MDB’s problem of excessively high debt levels, and that he had found that the company owed RM48.571 billion in debts as of May 20, 2015.
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