1MDB Trial: Najib insists he opened account to receive Saudi donation

1MDB Trial | Najib Abdul Razak is sticking to his version of events in which he opened his Malaysian bank account in order to receive donations from the Saudi royal family.

The former prime minister’s lead defence counsel Muhammad Sahfee Abdullah said this was the accused’s instructions as the AmIslamic Bank account 694 was opened in 2011 after meeting the late Saudi monarch King Abdullah Abdulaziz Al-Saud.