It was an informal afternoon tea onboard a yacht, not a meeting to plot siphoning billions from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the High Court heard on Tuesday (Dec 3).
Datuk Seri Najib Razak, on the stand, shared details of his private family vacation in Southern France in 2009, where he and his family were invited for high tea aboard the RM Elegance by Saudi's Prince Turki.
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Datuk Seri Najib Razak, on the stand, shared details of his private family vacation in Southern France in 2009, where he and his family were invited for high tea aboard the RM Elegance by Saudi's Prince Turki.
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00:00It was an informal afternoon tea on board a yacht, not a meeting to plot siphoning billions
00:08from one MDB, the KL High Court heard on Tuesday.
00:12Datuk Seri Najib Razak, on the stand, shared details of his private family vacation in
00:17southern France in 2009, where he and his family were invited for high tea aboard the
00:23RM Elegance by Saudi's Prince Turki.
00:26The former prime minister said he was already on holiday in the south of France with his
00:30family when the invitation came through his special officer via Joe Lowe, known for his
00:35connections with Middle Eastern royalty.
00:38Najib said his wife, Datun Seri Rosma Mansoor, children Noor Ashman Razak, Nooriana Najwa,
00:44and stepson Riza Aziz, were with him on the vacation.
00:48He added that they were joined by a friend, Tan Sri Bustari Yusuf, and his children.
00:54As they boarded the yacht, Najib said the group was greeted by Prince Turki and Petro-Saudi
00:59executive Tarek Obaid, both of whom he met for the first time.
01:03He claimed the meeting during the afternoon tea was entirely informal and the idea that
01:08they could have been discussing some sort of sinister plan was not only ridiculous but
01:13entirely unfounded.
01:15Had there been a hidden agenda or nefarious intent, Najib said he would not have allowed
01:21photographs to be taken showing them together.
01:24He also said it was both misleading and unfair for individuals who were not part of the meeting
01:29to speculate and draw adverse inferences as an attempt to serve the prosecution's narrative
01:35against him.
01:36Najib was testifying in his own defense in the 2.28 billion ringgit 1MDB graft trial
01:42before Judge Datuk Colin Lawrence Sequeira, which resumes tomorrow.
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