KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak told the High Court that he held no grudges against those who committed "injustice" towards him in the RM2.28bil 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) case.
The former prime minister said in his testimony that he would not "exact revenge" as it was not his character to do such a thing.
"Let me explain, to those who planned and executed this injustice, I will not exact revenge because it is not within me to put myself as low and for the government institutions to behave as such," he said in Bahasa Malaysia here on Friday.
Najib was reading parts of his additional 147-page witness statement in Malay, a change in language after having read his main witness statement entirely in English.
Najib named his "accusers", which included prosecution witnesses Datuk Amhari Effendi Nazaruddin (former special officer), Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi (former 1MDB CEO), Jasmine Loo (former 1MDB general counsel), Mohd Hazem Abd Rahman (former 1MDB CEO), Azmi Tahir (former 1MDB chief financial officer), Tan Sri Ismee Ismail (former 1MDB director), Tan Sri Mohd Bakke Salleh (former 1MDB director), Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz (former Bank Negara governor), Datuk Siti Zauyah Mohd Desa (former Finance Ministry deputy sec-gen), and Datuk Seri Mohd Husni Hanadzlah (former finance minister II).
Najib said the individuals had, in their desperate attempt to save themselves, made lies upon lies to implicate him.
"They twisted the facts with fiction and storytelling for their own freedom and to cover their own weaknesses and mistakes.
"They live freely without any legal repercussions nor remorse that easily by only giving their testimonies to the court to implicate me and put me in the midst of the offences they had clearly committed," he added.
Earlier, the court was told that Najib would be reading from an additional witness statement.
On Thursday (Dec 13), he had completed reading his 525-page witness statement that was read out over the span of eight days.
On Oct 30, Najib was ordered by the High Court to enter his defence on four counts of using his position to obtain RM2.28bil gratification from 1MDB's funds and 21 counts of money laundering involving the same amount.
The hearing continues before Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah on Jan 6.
