1MDB run like ‘Chinese coffeeshop at Petaling Street’, court hears

The prosecution likened 1MDB’s corporate affairs as being “run more like a Chinese coffeeshop at Petaling Street".

Senior deputy public prosecutor Gopal Sri Ram (above) made this comparison today when objecting to defence counsel Wan Aizuddin Wan Mohammed’s allegedly "irrelevant" line of cross-examination of a prosecution witness.

Wan Aizuddin was cross-examining former 1MDB CEO Mohd Hazem Abd Rahman during today’s corruption trial of...