Najib said none of his three children were offered jobs at the bank and they had never worked in a bank in the US.

“While the headlines of the local media gave the impression that I was being bribed by Goldman Sachs who offered my children work at the bank, what former executive (and star) witness Tim Leissner described was their attempt to bribe me,” he said in a Facebook post today.

Leissner testified in the bribery trial of former Goldman banker Roger Ng that former Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein met in 2009 with Najib, then the prime minister, ahead of big bond deals for 1MDB – and that the meeting came with an agenda.

In return for the lucrative business, Leissner said, Goldman was to get Najib’s three children jobs at the bank.

In the end, he told the jury, he just helped get Najib’s daughter a job at US investment company TPG.

However, Najib said the company had nothing to do with Goldman, adding that his daughter only worked there for a year in a junior position.

“She didn’t hold a top position (at TPG), she was just an investor relations professional,” he said.