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The 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) special task force that was set up in 2015 to investigate the company's misconduct was essentially an illegitimate body, the High Court told.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak made this assertion during cross-examination at the 1MDB trial in Putrajaya on Tuesday (Jan 21).

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00:00Former Prime Minister Datuk Sri Najib Razak on Tuesday disagreed with the prosecution
00:07in his 1MDB corruption trial that both the Attorney General and Malaysian Anti-Corruption
00:12Commission Chief Commissioner were removed because of their involvement in a special
00:16task force investigating the 1MDB scandal in 2015.
00:21Najib said the task force set up in 2015 to probe the company's misconduct was essentially
00:27an illegitimate body, as it was not set up using proper regulations.
00:32He said the establishment of the task force was not under the purview of the Attorney
00:36General.
00:37He said if the Attorney General was to set up a task force today, it would still be illegal
00:42as there were no law nor provisions for it.
00:45He disagreed with the prosecution that there was a roadblock to the task force after the
00:49removal of Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Patel and Tan Sri Abu Qasim Mohammed, saying that the investigation
00:56was still ongoing despite the task force being illegal.
00:59He also disagreed that the investigation was diverted after the disbandment of the task
01:04force.
01:05When asked about him ordering the then-Bank Nagara governor to issue a statement that
01:09it was not an offense regarding the inflow of monies in his personal bank accounts, Najib
01:14said he did not order the governor to do so.
01:17He said he asked the governor whether the monies could be validated or not.
01:21The task force was disbanded in July 2015.
01:25In October last year, Najib was ordered by the High Court to enter his defense on four
01:30counts of using his position to obtain 2.28 billion ringgit gratification from one MDB's
01:36funds and 21 counts of money laundering involving the same amount.

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