Court of Appeal dismisses Zahid's bid to consolidate CBT charges
The three man bench led by Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Yaacob Md Sam had quashed Zahid’s appeal and upheld the decision made by High Court Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah.
The three man bench led by Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Yaacob Md Sam had quashed Zahid’s appeal and upheld the decision made by High Court Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah.
Justice Datuk Ahmad Bache said today that the court will take about a month to arrive at a decision and that both camps will be informed a week before the decision is delivered.
His lawyer, Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla, told the court that the Parti Warisan Sabah vice-president had been warded in the KPJ Kota Kinabalu hospital in Sabah yesterday evening.
The prosecution is appealing against the Court of Appeal's decision in allowing Tengku Adnan's application for High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali to recuse himself from hearing the case.
The government needed more time to study expert reports on the feedlot project, senior federal counsel Azizan Arshad said in the High Court today.
The jewellery and other items belonged mostly to Najib’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, who was already granted permission by the High Court to physically inspect the items worth RM680 million in March.
Lead defence lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who was giving his oral submissions during the trial today, said the defence had an uphill task to defend Najib as “a victim of a scam” because of the prejudice that he was a man of finance and, therefore, should have been aware of the money coming into his accounts.
As both cases involve former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as the accused, Najib’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah had sought to vacate the 1MDB-Tanore trial for today as the defence is currently in the midst of making their oral submissions in the SRC case.
Explaining to Justice Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, appointed prosecutor Datuk V Sithambaram (pictured) said they did not need to call chief financial officer (CFO) See Yoke Peng as SRC director Datuk Suboh Md Yassin, who was a signatory for the company, had signed off on funds which were transferred out of SRC and eventually ended up in the personal accounts of Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak.
Appointed prosecutor Datuk V Sithambaram pointed out an oddity — that when Najib removed Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil as the chief executive officer (CEO) of SRC amid complaints about financial misconduct, he but still kept the latter as the mandate holder.