Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali allowed defence counsel Harvinderjit Singh to cross-examine former Ambank relationship manager Joanna Yu Ging Ping after hearing a short submission.
“Proceed,” the judge said in ruling that the defence could continue to cross-examine the 54th witness.
Earlier, ad hoc prosecutor V Sithambaram had got up to object when Harvinderjit questioned Yu on money going into Najib’s Ambank current account ending with the numbers 694.
“Events related to the inflow of Arab money is irrelevant to the charge the accused is facing,” he said.
Sithambaram said there must be some proximity to the charges but events starting from 2011 were “too far off”.
