Sri Ram, Shafee engage in verbal war over ‘rescuing’ of 1MDB witness

Defence lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah has contended that the prosecution was trying to “rescue” a key witness in the RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption case against Najib Abdul Razak.

However, deputy public prosecutor Gopal Sri Ram countered that the former premier’s defence counsel was instead asking irrelevant questions in today’s graft trial.

The verbal sparring took place during...