1MDB TRIAL | An ex-banker with the Singapore branch of BSI Bank testified that fugitive businessperson Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) developed suspicion over media leaks relating to 1MDB-linked transactions.

The bank’s former head of wealth management services, Kevin Michael Swampillai, told the Kuala Lumpur High Court today that this was the reason key figure Low (above) began reducing the former’s role in the investment of funds for 1MDB beginning 2013.

During the RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption trial against former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, the 44th prosecution witness gave oral evidence that his then-subordinate Yeo Jiawei began taking a more prominent role on behalf of BSI.

“My involvement in this transaction was gradually...