Ex-banker never expected Najib’s accounts would be used for money laundering, court told

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Joanna Yu Ging Ping, 52, who handled the former prime minister’s accounts, said this was because she believed that Najib was well aware about transactions in his bank accounts. theSun theSundaily banker najib account MoneyLaundering

: A former AmBank relationship manager told the High Court here today that she never expected someone would use Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s accounts for money laundering.

Asked by Muhammad Shafee why Yu and fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho or Jho Low had used ‘American Pie’ to refer to US$ and ‘Satays’ for RM through BlackBerry Messenger chats in 2014, the witness said since it was the then prime minister’s account, details had to kept confidential. Questioned by Muhammad Shafee whether this could be a money laundering issue, Yu said: This is PM’s account, the PM of Malaysia.Yu: For PM’s account, it didn’t strike me that anybody would use the PM’s account. I mean to do money laundering.

Meanwhile, the 41st prosecution witness told the court that Jho Low and Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, the former chief investment officer of 1MDB, had informed her to ensure cheques belonging to Najib did not bounce.

 

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