KUALA LUMPUR: Former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz told the High Court on Thursday (July 27) that Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had asked her to clear his name over the RM2.6bil in his personal bank account.
However, Zeti said she refused to obey the former prime minister's request as she had no knowledge about the latter's bank account.
She said soon after the meeting, she received a call from a Cabinet Minister who made the same request for her to issue such a statement, to which she gave the same answer. "I wish to unequivocally state that I had no knowledge of the transactions that were undertaken in his account at that material time," she said.
Zeti, who served the central bank for 35 years, said the main concern at that time was that AmBank did not report to BNM the more than 500 transactions relating to the account that were suspicious or irregular as required under Anti-Money Laundering Act .
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