FORMER education minister Mahdzir Khalid had personally written to Najib Razak to ask for special exemption in the procurement process for a solar system and maintenance and operations of diesel generators for schools in rural Sarawak, a witness in the Rosmah Mansor corruption trial said.
Former Education Ministry asset acquisition and management department secretary Kamarudin Abdullah was referred to a letter dated July 19, 2017, which was from Mahdzir to Najib who was then prime minister and finance minister.