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Wednesday, 10 Jun 2020 04:45 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — Costly handbags seized during the police’s 1MDB-linked raids in May 2018 had allegedly been “destroyed” due to the use of marker pen directly on their surfaces to label them, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lawyer claimed today according to local news reports.
Najib’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah reportedly made the accusation when arguing that his client should be allowed to inspect the items seized in the May 2018 raids from Pavilion condominium units that were linked to Najib.
In news reports by New Straits Times (NST) and The Edge, Shafee was reported claiming that the police allegedly had no respect for the seized luxury items when tagging them.
“During the seizure, the police had removed labels my client had kept on all of these items, we need to inspect and certify if these items are correct,” he was quoted saying by The Edge.
“The expensive handbags are all destroyed because the police labelled them with a magic marker. They wrote on the handbags, these are expensive items, the police had no respect,” he added.
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