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PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): The charge over abuse of power against Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case was wrong and illegal, the Court of Appeal heard Tuesday (April 27). Najib’s counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said this was because the former premier had no personal nor pecuniary interest when he chaired Cabinet meetings that discussed government guarantees for SRC to obtain a loan from the Retirement Fund Incorporated (KWAP). "Najib, as the prime minister, was the chairman of the Cabinet, which was the government of the day. The trial Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Gha...

PUTRAJAYA: The prosecution in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case has defended the trial judge's grounds of judgment that led to the conviction of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, which it said came “under attack” by the defence. Ad hoc prosecutor Datuk Seri V. Sithambaram told a three-man panel at the Court of Appeal that the defence, led by counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, had made serious allegations against High Court judge Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali. He said the defence had, both inside and outside of court, submitted and commented that the judge was biased, saying that the judg...

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal was told that large sums of money had entered into the bank accounts of Datuk Seri Najib Razak, but the former prime minister did not make enquiries to ask where the money came from. Instead, the Pekan MP had “immediately utilised” the monies by issuing cheques for personal and political uses, moved millions between two companies, and had shopping sprees at Swiss luxury jeweller boutique De Grisogono in Italy and designer boutique Chanel in Honolulu in the United States. (During the trial, the High Court was told that Najib had spent about RM3.3mil at De Gri...

PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s defence that he believed he had received funds from the Saudi King’s donation was nothing short of a weak fabrication and self-serving evidence, the Court of Appeal heard. Ad hoc prosecutor Datuk V. Sithambaram said evidence showed clearly that Najib could not have believed that the money, being the subject matter of the charges in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case, were Arab donations. Sithambaram was submitting the prosecution’s rebuttal in the hearing of an appeal filed by Najib against his conviction and sentence in the SRC case here on Wednesday...

pic) in his submissions before the Court of Appeal. The prosecutor submitted before a three-man panel that all of SRC International’s investment plans were only on paper but nothing had come to fruition. “It is all (only) on paper. But there is nothing to show for it. Nothing, ” he said here Thursday (April 15). Panel chair Justice Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil had asked Sithambaram about SRC International’s business plans in the hearing of an appeal filed by former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak against his conviction and sentence. “From what I gather from your submissions, it was...