News by Hafiz Yatim

Ahmad, 54, is charged with not declaring to the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) that the RM2 million via an AmBank Islamic cheque he received from former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak is from illegal proceeds.

Following this, the judge directed lawyers representing Nazifuddin and IRB to file their written submissions on the stay application.

Justice Ahmad Zaidi also fixed March 2 for case management for parties to inform him of the outcome of the application at the Court of Appeal.

The recording captures a meeting on Feb 24, 2016, chaired by the then-Chief Secretary of the government Tan Sri Ali Hamsa, which discusses omissions and changes to the final 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) audit report before it was handed to the Public Accounts Committee the next month.

"This is to avoid a situation where our client may be put in a compromised position when he takes the witness stand," counsel Datuk N Sivananthan told the High Court today.

With this, the hearing for Lokman to answer the contempt charge on him for threatening 1MDB witness Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin and other potential witnesses has been fixed by High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah on March 13 for committal proceedings.

The plaintiffs said on July 24, 2008, they were forced to take up a Bank Rakyat loan worth RM198.9 million as a proxy on behalf of Najib and Rosmah, with their master title for 80 condominium units named 'Palazzio Tower B' as collateral to ensure due repayment.

“The irony is that the judiciary, the very institution tasked with the insurmountable obligation to defend the liberty of the people, is itself quite defenceless. It is incumbent on all the stakeholders in the justice system to support and defend the system when the institution is undermined.”

Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram: Being a loud mouth is one thing, but you must act within the confines of the law.

Justice Sequerah fixed Feb 18 and 21, March 2-6, 9-13, 19-20, 23-27, 30-31, the whole month of April, May 4, and the whole month of June until October, including Fridays until 12:30pm, with the exception of weekends and public holidays for the 1MDB-Tanore trial.