1MDB’s former chief financial officer has testified that he was not aware hundreds of millions of US dollars from the sovereign wealth fund was transferred to Tanore Finance Corporation and two other third parties.

During today’s RM2.28 billion corruption trial against former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, 12th prosecution witness Azmi Tahir claimed that he only found out about these 2013 transfers from the media.

He was referring to the convoluted monetary trail in March 2013, where...