Santhara’s 55-day trip to NZ was morally wrong, Najib tells court


KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak told the Sessions Court here that the 55-day visit to New Zealand by the former deputy Federal Territories minister, Datuk Seri Dr Edmund Santhara Kumar, during the Covid-19 pandemic was morally wrong.

The former premier said Santhara Kumar should have sacrificed his holiday and returned for the rakyat as the virus hit the whole nation.

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