I am not assisting Najib’s
defence, says ex-1MDB
chairman
Che Lodin Wok Kamaruddin says he inquired about Jho Low’s presence at a 1MDB board meeting as he was neither a director nor staff member.
Che Lodin Wok Kamaruddin told the High Court he was only giving his version of events that took place in the company over the course of his eight-year tenure, which ran from 2009 to 2016.
“I tried to present what had happened during the operations of 1MDB when I was the chairman and a board member,” he said during the examination-in-chief by lawyer Shafee Abdullah.
Shafee had asked Lodin whether he was giving evidence to support Najib’s defence.
Lodin had previously told the court that fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) had played no role in 1MDB.
He had also claimed that Najib merely made a “polite request” for 1MDB’s then auditors, KPMG, to sign off on the company’s 2013 financial statements.
Testifying today, Lodin repeated that he saw Low for the first time at a 1MDB meeting on Sept 26, 2009.
“I did ask the company secretary why Jho Low was there in our meeting because he was not a director or staff member,” said Lodin, adding that he did not know who invited Low.
Shafee: Did Jho Low give you the impression he was an “advisor” to the (former) prime minister (Najib)?
Lodin: He did not.
The hearing before Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah continues tomorrow.
Najib is on trial for 25 charges of abuse of power and money laundering over funds amounting to RM2.28 billion that were deposited into his AmBank accounts between February 2011 and December 2014.
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