News by Hafiz Yatim

Deputy Public Prosecutor Saifuddin Hashim Musaimi, who leads the prosecution in the case, highlighted that billions of ringgit that have gone into the former premier's accounts are said to be from 1MDB. “These belong to 1MDB and it should not have ended up in a personal account, especially the former premier's AmBank 9694 account, where millions of US dollars went in.”

Musa's lawyer Tengku Fuad Tengku Ahmad and Jahid's counsel Datuk Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin informed the three-member panel, led by Court of Appeal President Tan Sri Rohana Yusuf, of the withdrawal of their appeals.

Malaysia’s highest court decided on the matter today after hearing the case involving former lorry driver P Chandran, who died in police custody in Kuala Lumpur in 2013 after his medical needs were not attended to.

"Kenari Maluri has no locus or right to intervene. The company is not even a shareholder in Semantan. Yet it claims to represent the majority shareholders (in Semantan Estates) to act on behalf of the company (Semantan Estates) against the government.”

Chu Jong and Chu Pak were previously shareholders of Ageson who resigned from their directorships in June last year.

It is understood that a member of the bench has an emergency concerning a relative.

Lawyer Hariharan told the court that Nazir did not say in his witness statement that he had returned the money to Najib.

Shafee claimed in the High Court that the police raid at the condominium unit owned by OBYU Holdings was not done according to procedure.

Scivetti for UMNO said the prosecution should have named Najib Razak as the respondent in the forfeiture hearing and not OBYU.

The Federal Court's three-member bench led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat dismissed Mun Chol Myong's appeal against Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the public prosecutor and the director of the Sungai Buloh Prison where he is presently being held in custody since 2019.