Nothing sinister in Najib’s 1MDB-Goldman Sachs meeting: Ex-chairperson

1MDB TRIAL | There is nothing sinister about Najib Abdul Razak’s presence at a meeting between 1MDB officials and Goldman Sachs nearly 16 years ago, the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund’s ex-chairperson testified.

Defence witness Che Lodin Wok Kamaruddin told the High Court in Putrajaya today that he was present when Najib met with the Wall Street bank’s executives including Lloyd Blankfein and Tim Leissner at a hotel suiet in New York on Nov 2009.