1MDB trial: Defence closes its case, court sets Sept 30 for submissions

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The defence in former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) case involving the misappropriation of RM2.28bil has closed its case after calling 26 witnesses.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/y369y3ca  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The defence in former Prime Minister Datuk Sri Najib Razak's 1 Malaysia Development Berhad

00:061MDB trial has closed its case after calling 26 witnesses, bringing an end to the testimony

00:13stage of the high-profile 2.28 billion ringgit misappropriation case.

00:18Najib's lead counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafi Abdullah, informed presiding judge Justice

00:24Colin Lawrence Sequeira on Tuesday that the defence's final witness was forensic document

00:29expert Teh Uekam.

00:32Justice Sequeira thanked parties for assisting the High Court in the case and fixed September

00:3730 for written submissions to be filed simultaneously with replies due by October 10.

00:44The judge also fixed October 21-24 and October 27-31 for oral submissions before the court.

00:51The prosecution's trial began on August 28, 2019 and concluded on May 30, 2023.

00:59After 233 hearing days and testimony from 50 witnesses, on October 30, 2023, the High Court

01:09ordered Najib to enter his defence.

01:12He took the stand as the first defence witness on December 2.

01:16Among the 26 witnesses called were former 1MDB chairman Tan Sri Che Lodin Wak Kamaruddin and

01:23Tenku Datuk Rahima Sultan Mahmood, sister to Terengganu's Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin.

01:3071-year-old Najib faces four charges of abuse of power for allegedly receiving 2,280,000,000 ringgit

01:38in gratification from 1MDB funds and 21 counts of money laundering involving the same amount.

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