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2020: Malaysia s major court cases New Strats Times
JANUARY
Jan 2: Kinabatangan member of parliament Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and wife Datin Seri Zizie Izette s corruption trial starts at the Sessions Court. Bung is charged with three counts of receiving RM2.8 million in bribes to obtain approval for Felcra Bhd to make a RM150 million investment in Public Mutual Bhd. His wife, actress and producer Zizie pleads not guilty to abetting him.
Jan 7: Kuala Lumpur City Hall civil engineering and urban transportation senior deputy director Sabudin Mohd Salleh, 58, is charged with accepting more than RM1 million in 2018. He faces six counts of receiving RM1.08 million to grant maintenance projects under his purview.
Year of high profile verdicts, 2 get jail & fine, others freed 28 Dec 2020 / 08:28 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: 2020 has indeed been an eventful year for the country’s judiciary with verdicts made over several high profile cases, with the most prominent, involving former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Other court cases that took centre stage this year included on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, corruption, criminal breach of trust (CBT) and money laundering which involved prominent leaders in the country.
On July 28, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak was sentenced to 12 years’ jail and RM210 million fine by High Court Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali after finding him guilty on seven charges of CBT, money laundering and abuse of position involving RM42 million of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds.