A contentious exchange between 1MDB’s former chairperson Mohd Bakke Salleh and Najib Abdul Razak’s lead counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah heated up the atmosphere at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today.

The war of words between the 15th prosecution witness and the defence lawyer was triggered over whether the former’s full testimony was captured in the 2016 Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report over the 1MDB affair.

As judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah looked on today during the RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption trial against Najib, Shafee asked Bakke whether...