I realised there was ‘fake’ Aabar when quizzed by authorities: Witness

1MDB TRIAL | 1MDB’s former chief financial officer Azmi Tahir today testified that he only realised there was a ‘fake’ Aabar Investments PJS entity when questioned by the authorities in 2015.

During this afternoon’s RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption trial against former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, 12th prosecution witness Azmi gave oral evidence that he was not aware that millions of US dollars went to the Seychelles-registered entity, which bore a similar name to the “actual” Aabar Investments PJS.

During examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor T Deepa Nair, Azmi testified that even when the National Audit Department (NAD) began auditing the 1MDB affair in 2015, he was told by his then deputy Terence Geh that both Aabars were...