He acknowledged being aware of Jho Low’s reputation at the time, as stories about his extravagant spending on properties and paintings were circulatin...
: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak admitted at the High Court today that he was aware of Jho Low’s highly publicised, ostentatious lifestyle but never verified the fugitive businessman’s claim that the purchases he made on multi-million properties and expensive artworks were on behalf of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the brother of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
During cross-examination by Mohamad Mustaffa, the 71-year-old former prime minister said he was not comfortable with Jho Low’s lifestyle and confronted him about it. The DPP then suggested that Najib, who was the prime minister at the time and at the apex of authority, could have investigated the truth of what Jho Low had claimed in relation to Sheikh Mansour.
Najib: No, no, no, I only utilised Jho Low for his international connection to the Saudis. I didn’t want people to think that I was beholden to him, I wanted people to know I was using him, I only wanted to tap into his connections. Earlier, a voice recording of Najib and a man purportedly the Managing Director and CEO of Mubadala, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, was played in court.
Similarly, Najib also denied receiving any text message from former 1MDB chairman Tan Sri Mohd Bakke Salleh about the brewing issues within the sovereign wealth fund, specifically expressing concern over 1MDB’s joint venture with PetroSaudi.
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