1MDB TRIAL | An MACC investigating officer and Najib Abdul Razak’s defence team verbally clashed during today’s RM2.27 billion 1MDB corruption trial against the former prime minister.

The prosecution’s 49th witness Nur Aida Arifin and lawyer Wan Azwan Aiman Wan Fakhruddin disagreed on whether there was abuse of power when the-then finance minister Najib obtained unanimous cabinet approval for the accused to sign a letter of support (LOS) for 1MDB to raise US$3 billion (RM14.31 billion) in bonds to finance the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund’s 2013 joint venture (JV) with Aabar Investments PJS.