Key 1MDB witness Nor Salwani Muhammad praised by Malaysians for ‘pencil case’ recording

A key witness in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) corruption trial has been lauded as a “national hero” by Malaysians, after she revealed in court that she had recorded a meeting between top officials discussing a 1MDB audit report and kept a copy of a document she was meant to destroy.Former government auditor Nor Salwani Muhammad, 52, said yesterday that she had taped a 2016 discussion between senior government officials and former 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy, although she maintained…