To avoid PAC meeting, former 1MDB CEO was told to leave country, court hears


Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi (left)

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The High Court here heard that former 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) CEO Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi was instructed to leave the country by former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak's office to avoid a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing in Parliament in 2015.

Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi, 49, said the then 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy told him that the PMO had instructed him to travel overseas to avoid the first PAC meeting.

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