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Rafizi claims Najib paid another lawyer RM325k
Published:  Jun 6, 2017 11:52 AM
Updated: 7:43 AM
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PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli has claimed that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak paid another lawyer involved in Anwar Ibrahim's Sodomy II trial with SRC International-related funds.

Citing leaked Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission investigation documents, he said Najib paid RM325,188 to lawyer Ghazi Ishak in 2011, to set aside a subpoena for the prime minister to testify and be questioned in the Sodomy II trial.

Rafizi claimed that MACC had verified the transfer and questioned another lawyer, Salehuddin Saidin, on the matter.

Rafizi also clarified that he did not mean to target either lawyer, and that he was confident they had no knowledge of the origin of the money they received...

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