Lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah told a press conference after attending former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1MDB graft hearing on Monday that the conviction of PetroSaudi executives Tarek Obaid and Patrick Mahony by the Swiss court did not implicate Najib.
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00:00I want to stress that in Switzerland, not only Dato' Sri Najib was not implicated in terms of allegations.
00:11He was never implicated even on the allegations. Very important.
00:16But in coming to the conclusion that these two were guilty, they also never implicated Dato' Sri Najib.
00:25Extremely important. Unlike DOJ that started off with a high and mighty statement, but they proved nothing.
00:34But the court in Switzerland is supposed to be a very impartial court.
00:39No political agenda. In finding the two guilty, they found no side remarks to be made about Dato' Sri Najib.
00:49Number two, they make this finding that PSI headed by these two, namely Tariq Obaid and Patrick Mahoney,
00:58has cheated the entire lot of the officials and officers of the 1MDB.
01:08That means the management was cheated, the board of directors was cheated and misled, which includes,
01:16if you would remember, the attorney general here, the public prosecutor says,
01:21because Dato' Sri Najib is also the chairman of the board of advisors, which was never created.
01:28It was proposed, but nobody set it up. But nevertheless, we take it for granted that because he's an official shareholder
01:37from the Ministry of Finance, that insinuation is dying, that Jolo was the representative of Dato' Sri Najib.
01:46That idea is now getting killed because that's no longer true. In the Swiss case and in the PAC,
01:53we have produced evidence when we cross-examined Dato' Sharul, because the Swiss court implicated Jolo,
02:02that these two were acting in collaboration, in conspiracy with Jolo, not with Dato' Sri Najib,
02:10in order to cheat 1MDB. And 1MDB includes Dato' Sri Najib. So the whole lot of them were cheated.
02:19And we primarily blame the management, headed by Sharul, because, of course, our case is that
02:28these people were also part and parcel of Jolo's payment list. They were all being paid.
02:35We said that in the court. Now I just repeat it. So with this conviction, it is clear what we have said has become true.