Datuk Seri Najib Razak's lead defence counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, clarified that the former prime minister's apology for the 1MDB scandal was not made to influence the court's decision in the RM2.28bil 1MDB trial.
He said that Najib's expression of regret carried no admission of guilt and was made as the debacle occurred under his leadership.
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He said that Najib's expression of regret carried no admission of guilt and was made as the debacle occurred under his leadership.
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00:00Baran, come here.
00:05Arfaz, come here.
00:07So recently, Dr. Shin Najib has apologised.
00:09And coming up to today's decision, and with this decision to enter defence,
00:14how do you indicate that he has apologised?
00:18Many of you, including a lot of politicians on the other side,
00:26some of you have innocently misinterpreted,
00:31but the politicians have purposely misinterpreted.
00:36Datuk Shin Najib apologised that the 1MDB debacle happened during his watch.
00:47He's not saying that I did it.
00:51He's not saying that.
00:53He has to apologise because he's number one.
00:57Under the Westminster system, if you are the head of the government
01:03and a bad thing happens under your watch, you apologise.
01:08Among other things, you apologise.
01:10And that's what precisely he did.
01:12He did not apologise for those purposes in order to get a better result here, no.
01:20He thought that it was already due for him to apologise,
01:26merely because it took place during his watch.
01:30He's not saying he's guilty, criminally or negligently or recklessly.
01:36Yes, anything else?
01:38Why now? Why the timing of apology after all this time?
01:45You see, he has given a statement in his civil trial pertaining to 1MDB.
01:52He is being consistent after looking at all the documents.
01:57But what is more interesting, witnesses even from the prosecution,
02:02and you will hear this this afternoon from another witness
02:07who is from the liquidator firm overseas,
02:13who will say who were the rascals, who were the culprits
02:17who actually have done the scam on 1MDB.
02:22You will hear from him.
02:23And he mentioned no name about that person.
02:30Any other questions?
02:33Yes?
02:35That's it?
02:36Okay, thank you very much.