Ex-Treasury official clarifies no malice meant when ‘pressured’ to expedite govt guarantees for SRC International | Malay Mail

Former Finance Ministry deputy secretary-general , Datuk Mat Noor Nawi and former Finance Ministry secretary, Datuk Maliami Hamad, are seen at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex July 9, 2019. — Picture by Hari Anggara

Datuk Maliami Hamad, formerly the secretary of the ministry’s Loan Management, Financial Market and Actuary Division, clarified the the term “pressured” he used in his witness statement during cross-examination by Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lawyer, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah. Muhammad Shafee: The pressure you received to expedite the process does not mean anything mischievous?Yesterday Maliami testified that orders came repeatedly from Najib, which were verbally conveyed through the then Treasury secretary-general Tan Sri Wan Abdul Aziz Wan Abdullah and the ex-PM’s then aide Datuk Azlin Alias.

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