Ex-director: 'Najib’s fingerprint not seen, 1MDB mishandled transaction'

Former 1MDB board member Ismee Ismail testified today that Najib Abdul Razak’s ‘fingerprints’ were not seen in relation to the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund’s US$2.3 billion ‘investment’ in a British Virgin Islands-based fund.

The 13th prosecution witness of the former prime minister’s RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption trial was concurring with lead defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah over whether there were signs that Najib - as the then chairperson of the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund’s board of advisers - was involved in the suspicious transaction.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court previously...