It was an informal afternoon tea onboard a yacht, not a meeting to plot siphoning billions from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the High Court heard. Read full story

1MDB TRIAL | Najib Abdul Razak has testified that his family yacht outing on the southern waters of France in 2009 was for afternoon tea, not to hatch a nefarious plot to embezzle funds from 1MDB.

Najib said he was already on holiday with his family in south France in August 2009, when he received an invitation from Low Taek Jho — the Malaysian fugitive better known as Jho Low — on behalf of Kuwait’s prince and Abu Dhabi royal member Sheikh Hamed Zayed Al Nahyan.