Ex-1MDB CEO says did text Najib ‘happy birthday’, but not to check on work | Malay Mail

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 — Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi today confirmed he had in the past sent text messages with birthday greetings to Datuk Seri Najib Razak, but had not contacted the latter to check with him on instructions and decisions linked to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)....

Monday, 14 Oct 2019 07:33 PM MYTFormer Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak walks out of the courtroom for a break at the Kuala Lumpur High Court Complex October 14, 2019. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

“Also before election, I messaged him. During 1MDB time, I don’t recall any significant messages I sent to him,” Shahrol told the High Court today, adding that he may have sent Najib other messages but that he did not recall what he had written.Najib’s lead defence lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah had pointed out to Shahrol that he was in a “messaging mode” with the former prime minister, saying that some of the messages were allegedly still in Najib’s mobile phone.

Shahrol then replied: “I was able to message the prime minister. However, again, I was respectful of the fact that I cannot simply message him for things I believe to be correct already.” Explaining why he had believed Low to have been relaying instructions from Najib on 1MDB, Shahrol noted that Najib’s actions were “consistent” with what Low had told him and that “never even once after the fact was I told by Datuk Seri Najib that I shouldn’t have done something”.

 

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