KUALA LUMPUR (June 13): AmBank Bhd's treasury department received instructions to convert some of the money in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's private bank account into US dollar and British pound.
In the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-Tanore trial, Salmah Daman Huri, AmBank's treasury department vice president, testified that a sum of US$620 million in the former prime minister's account was converted from the local currency via several transactions in July and August 2013.