KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 13): The final version of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report in 2016 was not to be printed until former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had given his approval, a former audit director told the High Court today.

Saadatul Nafisah Bashir Ahmad (pictured), the seventh prosecution witness in Najib and former 1MDB chief executive officer Arul Kanda Kandasamy's 1MDB audit tampering trial, testified that this was a direct instruction from the then Chief Secretary to the government Tan Sri Ali Hamsa on Najib's behalf.