KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 23): National Audit Department (NAD) director Datuk Nor Salwani Muhammad has denied that she was conferred a datukship solely because of her role in exposing the alleged tampering of the original audit report of the scandal-hit 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
Testifying in the 1MDB audit report tampering trial at the High Court, Nor Salwani said she was nominated for a royal award even before her earlier testimony at this trial in November 2019. The award was not just to appreciate me for keeping the evidence. I was nominated by NAD for the Panglima Mahkota Wilayah (which carries the title Datuk) because I have served in the Ministry of Federal Territories and NAD for almost 30 years, she said.
23 Feb 2021 / 22:01 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: A witness in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) audit tampering trial involving Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today denied that she was awarded a ‘Datuk’ for testifying against the former prime minister.
National Audit Department’s director (Governance Sector) Datuk Nor Salwani Muhammad (
pix), 54, told the High Court here that she was conferred the Panglima Mahkota Wilayah award on Feb 1, 2020, after serving the Federal Territories Ministry for 30 years.
She said this when answering a question from lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah representing Najib, 67, in the trial before Judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan.
Nor Salwani made headlines in 2019 after she testified in the High Court that she hid a voice recorder in a pencil case to record a meeting which discussed amendments for the 1MDB audit report, held on Feb 24, 2016.
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