BANK officer Nor Ashikin Abdullah today told the Kuala Lumpur High Court RM1.09 million was deposited into Rosmah Mansor’s personal Affin Bank Bhd account in several transactions between October 2014 and June 2017.

The Affin Bank ATM services and support assistant manager, 58, said the amount was deposited into Rosmah’s account through cash deposit machines (CDMs) at several Affin Bank branches, including Bangunan Getah Asli in Bangsar and the Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera building in Kuala Lumpur.

Nor Ashikin said she received a request in November 2018 from the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering Financing of Terrorism unit of the bank to obtain information regarding records of cash deposit transactions into Rosmah’s account.

“I accessed Affin Bank’s electronic records to obtain the requested information and printed the report for cash deposit transactions using CDMs for account 0058 (Rosmah’s account) from the electronic records using the computer in the office,” she said, adding that the statement was handed over to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission officials.

The first prosecution witness was reading her statement on the first day of the trial of Rosmah, who has been charged with 12 counts of money laundering involving RM7,097,750 and five charges of failing to declare her income to the Inland Revenue Board.

The second prosecution witness, a former official at Seri Perdana Complex, told the court he once helped his superior Roslan Sohari (residential manager of Seri Perdana Complex) deposit cash into the same bank account.

Faizal Shamsuddin, 48, said he received instructions from Roslan to deposit the money, and the latter had handed him cash in an envelope, on which Rosmah’s bank account number was written.

“Mr Roslan asked me to hand over the envelope containing the cash to the officer at Affin Bank to manage the deposit.

“I identified the first document, which was the Affin Bank deposit slip, which showed a cash deposit of RM 200,000 on June 17, 2015, into Rosmah’s account, and based on my handwriting on the deposit slip, I can confirm this cash deposit was made by me on the instructions of Mr Roslan,” he said.

Before the trial commenced, deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib asked the court to postpone today’s proceedings as he needed time to consider a representation letter dated August 18 sent by Rosmah’s solicitors. The defence’s lead counsel, Geethan Ram Vincent, did not object to the request.

However, judge K. Muniandy rejected the request and ordered the trial to proceed on grounds the charges against Rosmah were filed in 2018.

Another of Rosmah’s lawyers, Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin, informed the court the defence would file an application to strike all charges filed against his client on or before September 7.

The judge then vacated tomorrow’s trial date and set September 7 and 8 for continuation of the trial. – Bernama, August 24, 2023.