Anwar Ibrahim said he would have to resign as finance minister if the actual figure in relation to Bank Negara's foreign exchange (forex) losses is revealed, claimed a witness.

Testifying before the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the forex losses, former Bank Negara assistant governor Abdul Khalid Murad said Anwar had confided this to him.

Reading his witness statement, Murad said in 1994, then Bank Negara governor Jaffar Hussein had instructed him to explain the forex losses to Anwar, who was then finance minister...