Ex-chairman says suspected Najib would personally benefit from 1MDB's US$1b investment, due to deadline pressure and Jho Low

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KUALA LUMPUR, May 18 — Tan Sri Mohd Bakke Salleh today said he had decided to only send a text message in 2009 to Datuk Seri Najib Razak to inform why he was resigning as 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) chairman, as he was suspicious that the then prime minister Najib had personal interest in the government-owned firm 1MDB’s US$1 billion “investment”. Bakke, who was a former 1MDB chairman briefly in 2009, said this while testifying as the 15th prosecution witness in Najib’s trial over the misappropriation of more than RM2 billion of 1MDB funds. Bakke explained that he decided not to meet then prime minister Najib face-to-face to say he was resigning as 1MDB chairman and what were the reasons for the resignation. “I thought about that, but I decided against it, but I wasn’t comfortable. In my mind, I had this feeling that the PM was part of this scheme of things,” he told t…