Cheah denies receiving iPhones from ‘liar’ Jho Low

TheEdge Fri, Jul 19, 2019 10:44am - 4 years View Original


KUALA LUMPUR: While former AmBank managing director Cheah Tek Kuang has met Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, he has denied having any dealings with the fugitive businessman.

Cheah also denied that he received two iPhone 5s as gifts from Low.

He described Low as a “liar” who was “never punctual” and would “set up an appointment at 7am but arrived at one in the afternoon”.

“I would say it (receiving two iPhone 5s as gifts) did not happen. I never collected the phones,” Cheah, 72, told the court during cross-examination by defence counsel Harvinderjit Singh.

Messages in the BlackBerry messenger (BBM) between ex-AmBank relationship manager Joanna Yu and a third person, whom the defence alleged was Low, was the centre of attention again yesterday.

Cheah, the 50th prosecution witness at former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s SRC International Sdn Bhd trial, has denied any dealings with a third person who communicated often with his former staff Yu.

The BBM messages between Yu and the third person underlined many things. For instance, it seemed to show that the third person had met Cheah at least once in 2013, and that both Cheah and Yu had received two iPhone 5s phones each as gifts from the third person. But Cheah denied receiving the smartphones.

Meanwhile, the BBM chat stated that Cheah had visited Bank Negara Malaysia’s then-governor Tan Sri Zeti Aziz to deliberate on certain banking matters which the trio were involved in.

According to the chat messages, Yu mentioned that Cheah “misses” the unnamed third person.

Najib’s trial entered its 40th day yesterday. He is facing multiple charges of criminal breach of trust, abuse of power and money laundering involving RM42 million of SRC funds.

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