1MDB TRIAL | Former 1MDB CEO Mohd Hazem Abd Rahman today testified that businessperson Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, had informed him that the company was set up to help fund Umno.

Hazem, reading his witness statement, told the court that Low had said so during a meeting in a Putrajaya hotel in July 2012, in the presence of then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak's aide, Azlin Alias...