Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi, who held the post of director between 2011 and 2012, also said he was not arrested by the authorities in the course of their investigations into the matter.

He said the government only barred him from travelling overseas during the investigation period beginning 2015.

The ban was subsequently lifted in 2020, he said.

“My passport was not impounded (by the authorities).

“I checked on the immigration (website) and saw my name under ‘restriction’,” he said when questioned by Najib Razak’s lawyer, Harvinderjit Singh, in SRC International’s lawsuit against the former prime minister.

Shahrol, who was also 1MDB’s CEO between 2009 and 2013, was responding to questions in connection with the authorities’ probe into him in relation to the SRC International and 1MDB cases.

SRC International is suing Najib and 1MDB’s former CEO Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil for wrongfully receiving company property, and dishonestly and wrongfully conspiring to convert company property to their own use.

The suit originally included Shahrol and fellow former directors Ismee Ismail, Azhar Osman Khairuddin, Suboh Yasin and Che Abdullah @ Rashidi Che Omar as co-defendants.

SRC International later dropped the case against them. However, they were added as third parties by Najib.

In his testimony, Shahrol also told the court he gave statements only to the police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

“I never had interaction with non-Malaysian authorities,” he said.

He said the police and MACC investigators had asked him about the 1MDB transactions involving former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng.

The hearing before Justice Ahmad Fairuz Zainol Abidin continues on April 17.