Communicating with Jho Low did not mean treating him as PM: Ex-1MDB CEO

KUALA LUMPUR – Former 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) chief executive officer (CEO) Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi today denied allegations that he treated fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, as if he were Malaysia’s prime minister. Testifying as the fourth plaintiff witness in 1MDB’s USD5.64 billion civil suit at the High Court, the 56-year-old former CEO acknowledged that he had communicated with then prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak through informal channels, including via Jho Low, Bernama reported. Shahrol Azral made the clarification during cross-examination by lawyer G.K. Ganesan, who is representing former 1MDB investment director Kelvin Tan Kay Jin, the seventh defendant in the suit. The exchange centred on whether Shahrol Azral had directly

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