Kuala Lampur, Dec. 10 -- Datuk Seri Najib Razak's cross examination by the prosecution in his RM42 million SRC International Sdn Bhd corruption trial began today with Attorney General (AG) Tan Sri Tommy Thomas leading the questioning.

As expected, since he gave his witness statement in Malay, Najib chose to respond using Bahasa Malaysia to most of Thomas's questions that were in English.

Thomas previously conceded to a weak command of the national language.

Despite the apparent tactic, Najib switched to English when pressed to elaborate, regularly switching back and forth between languages as his visible preference for English overrode the apparent plan to stick to Bahasa Malaysia.

Wearing a wide grin, Thomas structured his line of qu...