1MDB audit tampering trial: Court to decide if Najib, Arul Kanda need to enter defence on March 3

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here will decide on Friday (March 3) whether to call former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy to enter their defence or free them in the 1MDB audit report tampering trial.

Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan, who is now a Court of Appeal judge, will return to the High Court to deliver his decision at the end of the prosecution's case against the two men at 9am on Friday.