Day 38 of Najib's SRC trial: Ex-Yayasan Rakyat 1Malaysia CEO Ung Su Ling to take stand

TheEdge Tue, Jul 16, 2019 08:20am - 4 years View Original


KUALA LUMPUR (July 16) Former Yayasan Rakyat 1Malaysia chief executive officer Ung Su Ling is expected to take the stand at the High Court here this morning as the prosecution's 49th witness in the SRC International Sdn Bhd trial involving Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

The prosecution team had indicated yesterday that they could finish the examination in chief of Ung during the short trial session today that is expected to end at 11am as Najib who is also Pekan MP has been allowed by the court to go to Parliament to debate the bill for constitutional amendments on lowering the voting age to 18.  

 

Yesterday had seen four prosecution witness testify namely Bank Negara analyst Shuzairizman Shuib, AmBank's electroni  transfer and securities unit manager, Wedani  Senen, AmBank vice president Yeoh Eng Leng and lawyer Mohd Shuhaimi Ismail.

 

Wedani who was the prosecution's 24th witness who had been recalled told the court that the RM50 million deposited into Najib's account from Vista Equity International Partners and BlackRock Commodities Global Ltd between June and early December 2014 was for loans and not donation as claimed by the former premier.

 

Yeoh meanwhile told the court that Najib has been issued with two Platinum Visa and Mastercard from AmBank which was used in 2011 and 2015 and at one instance during a trip to Italy he had spent Euro 563,500 or RM3.3 million to purchase luxury jewellery at De Grisorgono, Italy in 10 separate transactions in a day in August 2014.

 

The witness also testified that the former premier had also spent US$130,625 on a Chanel watch while on a trip to Honolulu Hawaii in December 2014, a date that corresponds to his visit there to play golf with then President Barrack Obama.

 

Ung's testimony is seen vital today as she was the link with Ihsan Perdana Sdn Bhd's managing director Datuk Dr Shamsul Anwar Sulaiman to deposit money allegedly from SRC to Najib's accounts.

 

Shamsul had previously testified that he was asked by Ung to deposit the money to an AmBank account number not knowing that it belonged to Najib.

 

The Ihsan Perdana MD told the court that had he known the accounts belong to Najib he would not have deposited the amount.

 

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