The High Court in Kuala Lumpur today was told that Deutsche Bank (M) Berhad was pressed to speed up the transfer of US$1 billion from 1MDB as then prime minister Najib Razak wanted to make a press statement on the 1MDB joint-venture project with PetroSaudi International Ltd.

The bank’s former managing director (head of global markets corporate sales) Jacqueline Ho Yek Wan, 51, said 1MDB's former executive director Casey Tang Keng Chee requested the bank to...