1MDB trial: Presiding judge admits to working with 1MDB's former general counsel over a decade ago


KUALA LUMPUR: Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah, who is the presiding judge in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial, has revealed that he had worked with 1MDB former general counsel Jasmine Loo Ai Swan in a legal firm at least a decade ago.

Justice Sequerah, who is now a Court of Appeal judge, disclosed the past connection to parties in the trial when Loo's name was brought up in the RM2.28bil 1MDB trial here on Wednesday (July 26).

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