Najib ‘politely requested’ KPMG to sign 1MDB financials, says ex-chairman

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The audit firm had refused to sign off on 1MDB’s 2013 financial statements as it was unable to verify the authenticity of a US$2.3 billion ‘investment’ in Brazen Sky Ltd.  Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/02/25/najib-politely-requested-kpmg-to-sign-1mdb-financials-says-ex-chairman/  Laporan Lanjut:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2025/02/25/najib-minta-secara-sopan-kpmg-tandatangan-laporan-kewangan-1mdb-kata-bekas-pengerusi/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #NajibRazak #1MDB

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00:00Former 1MDB chairman told the High Court today that Najib Razak merely made a polite request

00:06for 1MDB's auditors to sign off on the company's 2013 financials.

00:11Testifying in the former prime minister's 1MDB trial, Chehlodin Wak Kamaruddin said

00:15he attended a meeting at Najib's Langgat Duta House on December 15, 2013, together

00:21with the company's former CEO Hazim Abdul Rahman and its ex-CFO Azmi Tahir.

00:27Also present were Johan Idris, KPMG's then-managing partner, and two other partners from the audit

00:32firm Razlan Rahman and Feng Mangkong.

00:35The court had previously heard that KPMG had refused to sign 1MDB's 2013 financial statements

00:42after failing to get proper answers to questions about the authenticity of 1MDB's $2.3 billion

00:47US investment in Brazen Sky Ltd.

00:50KPMG was subsequently replaced by Deloitte.

00:53Chehlodin also told the court that contrary to his testimony, Johan's notes on the meeting

00:58did not suggest that he had been intimidated by Najib into signing off on the financials.

01:03Najib himself denied ordering KPMG to sign off on the 2013 financial statements and acknowledged

01:09that the auditors were unhappy with 1MDB for failing to provide sufficient documents.

01:15Najib is on trial for 25 charges of abuse of power and money laundering, over funds

01:20amounting to RM2.28 billion that were deposited into his mBank accounts between February 2011

01:26and December 2014.

01:29Hanyu Zhou, FMT News.

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