They had been charged with receiving 1MDB funds from the personal account of former PM Najib Razak.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court today rejected an application for judicial review by 34 individuals, including former Felda chairperson Shahrir Samad and Pontian MP Ahmad MaslanThe decision was made by Judge Nordin Hassan in his chambers after hearing arguments by both parties on the application filed by 34 individuals as applicants against the MACC chief commissioner Latheefa Koya and MACC as respondents.
“The judge found the action of the respondent in issuing the compound notices was part and parcel of a criminal proceeding and as such it could not be reviewed by the court,” he said.Senior Federal Counsel Ahmad Hanir Hambaly acted on behalf of Latheefa and MACC. In the application, all applicants seeking to declare the decision and action of the two respondents in compounding them via the Offer to Compound Offence dated Oct 7, 2019, asThe applicants also sought to cancel the decision and action of the second respondent in compounding them apart from applying for an order to prevent MACC from enforcing the compound or continue their prosecution against them.
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