PUTRAJAYA, Sept 12 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lead defence lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah today expressed confidence that his client would be...
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 12 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lead defence lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah today expressed confidence that his client would be acquitted by the courts even in the latter’s trial over the misappropriation of 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s RM2.28 billion.
The question did not specify which of Najib’s cases was being referred to. Najib, who is also a former finance minister and former Umno president, is facing three outstanding criminal cases. Earlier today, the Court of Appeal had struck out the prosecution’s appeal against the High Court’s acquittal of Najib and former 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy in a trial over the alleged tampering of the auditor-general’s audit report on 1Malaysia Development Berhad before it could be sent to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
“We feel that Datuk Seri Najib’s case has got a lot of prospects for various other processes, such as pardons, United Nations process and so on,” he said, referring to Najib’s SRC case which has resulted in the latter’s imprisonment. Najib, who is currently a prisoner, was seen in the courtroom today, while his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor also attended the court proceedings while seated next to him in the public gallery in the courtroom.
Najib has been serving his 12-year jail term since August 23 last year, which is more than a year ago.
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