AmBank converted US$710m into RM2.1b for 'private client' - banker

1MDB TRIAL | AmBank has converted over US$710 million into RM2,172,376,853.28 for a client’s private account between Oct 31, 2012 and April 10, 2013, the Kuala Lumpur High Court heard today.

However, during the RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption trial against former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, the bank’s vice-president of the Treasury Operation Department, Salmah Daman Huri, did not specify whose account it was.

As former finance minister Najib looked on from the dock...