KUALA LUMPUR – Datuk Seri Najib Razak will testify as a defence witness in his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s corruption trial relating to a RM1.25 billion solar hybrid project for 369 rural schools in Sarawak.
Rosmah’s lawyer, Datuk Jagjit Singh, said the former prime minister is among the defence witnesses to be called up during the nine-day proceedings starting June 9.
He said the defence currently has five or six witnesses, and has been offered some 10 witnesses by the prosecution.
“We need to look into the list (of prosecution witnesses), and we also need to interview them,” he told reporters after today’s court proceedings.
Earlier, high court judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan ordered Rosmah to enter her defence on all three of her corruption charges after finding that the prosecution made a prima facie case. – Bernama, February 18, 2021
