Najib chose to answer questions on money laundering in court, IO says
KUALA LUMPUR: The investigating officer in Najib Razak’s 1MDB case today told the High Court that the former prime minister had opted to answer questions about his money laundering charges in court as the police only recorded his statement after he was charged.
Foo Wei Min, from Bukit Aman’s commercial crime investigation department, said he took Najib’s statement on Oct 3, 2018 – about two weeks after he was taken to court to face 1MDB charges.
Foo said he had asked Najib a total of 75 questions, including on his 21 money laundering charges, but that Najib told the authorities he “will only answer them in court”.
Lawyer Shafee Abdullah then asked Foo to confirm whether Najib had mentioned that he chose to answer these questions in court, saying “it is against legal principles for him to answer them after he was charged”.
The witness answered in the affirmative.
“He is entitled to exercise his right to answer them in court?” Shafee asked.
Foo agreed to the lawyer’s suggestion.
Shafee then questioned the police officer on whether he had received “instructions from above” to ask Najib questions about his money laundering charges.
Foo told the court that there were no such instructions.
“As the IO, I have a duty to ask him the questions, even if he has already been charged,” he added.
Foo also said that 1MDB funds had been laundered all over the world, with portions of the money transferred back to Malaysia into an AmBank account ending with the digits 694.
He said “ill-gotten gains” from the “694 account” were subsequently transferred to various entities, political parties and individuals.
The hearing continues before Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah.
Najib is standing trial for 25 counts of abuse of power and money laundering over RM2.28 billion in 1MDB funds deposited in his AmBank accounts between February 2011 and December 2014.
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