Najib's 1MDB trial: Ex-MoF senior officer says didn't draft own witness statement, received it last minute

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 25 — A former senior officer at the Finance Ministry today abruptly told the High Court that she had not personally drafted her own witness statement for her testimony against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in his 1Malaysia Development Berhad trial.

Siti Zauyah instead said it was officers in the Finance Ministry who had drafted the witness statement for her. Pressed further on the witness statement which she had sworn under oath to be true, Siti Zauyah said:"I mean this was drafted by my officers, but never in my presence, I was just given the documents."

Shafee then said:"But in truth, the details that were put in your statement, you do not know the whole lot to be true, to be accurate from your personal knowledge?"Shafee then requested for a short break for him to confer with the prosecution regarding this new development. The court stood down at around 11.37am, with Najib then going to the room attached to the courtroom which was guarded by multiple prison officers.

“I don't know why this witness is being produced, because she gave a wonderful textbook witness statement and now she said everything she don't know. Shafee added that it was the first time in his 46 years as a lawyer that he had encountered such a witness.

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