KUALA LUMPUR: A member of the Saudi royal family promised an additional US$1.17bil “gift” for Datuk Seri Najib Razak “as an appreciation of his contribution to the Islamic world”, the High Court heard.
Saudi prince, Saud Abdulaziz Majid Al Saud, had promised to remit the cash gift into the former prime minister’s personal bank account via two transactions – US$375mil on Nov 1, 2011 and US$800mil on March 1, 2013, Najib’s lawyer Wan Aizuddin Wan Mohammed said, citing two letters purportedly from the Saudi royalty.
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