Former chief secretary to the government Ali Hamsa was today grilled over why Shukry Mohd Salleh, the principal private secretary to then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, was involved in the meetings to address the National Audit Department's (NAD) report on 1MDB when he was neither the auditor nor auditee.

Ali, who was supposed to be cross-examined by Najib's lead defence counsel Shafee Abdullah at the 1MDB audit tampering trial today, was instead questioned by N Sivananthan who is acting for former 1MDB chief executive officer Arul Kanda Kandasamy...