PUTRAJAYA, Feb. 26 -- Did Low Taek Jho actually stay on for the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) board of directors' meeting on September 26, 2009, after passing his handphone-with then-prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on the line-to then-1MDB chairman Tan Sri Mohd Bakke Salleh?

Today, 1MDB's then-director Tan Sri Che Lodin Wok Kamaruddin attempted to recall the details of the events surrounding that 1MDB board meeting, which took place over 15 years ago. At the meeting, the 1MDB directors were to decide whether the Finance Ministry-owned company should invest US$1 billion in a proposed joint venture deal with the purported Saudi Arabian firm PetroSaudi International.

Testifying as the 12th defence witness in Najib's 1MDB trial,...