The High Court was told today that the then-MACC chief commissioner Abu Kassim Mohamed was replaced to protect Najib Abdul Razak from being investigated and charged in connection with the 1MDB scandal in 2016.

It was disclosed by MACC senior superintendent Nur Aida Arifin, 37, when verifying the content of an audio recording of a conversation between Najib, his wife Rosmah Mansor and his former special officer, Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin...