1MDB trial: A week needed to query ex-banker who handled Najib’s accounts, says Shafee


KUALA LUMPUR: The defence team in Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) trial will take about a week to cross-examine Joanna Yu Ging Ping, the former AmBank relationship manager, the High Court was told.

Najib’s lead counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (pic) said this when asked by Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah as to how long the former banker will be questioned at Najib’s trial involving the misappropriation of RM2.3bil from 1MDB funds.

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