: This year, the Malaysian courts certainly made headlines with salient verdicts handed down against politicians and public figures charged with corruption, money-laundering, criminal breach of trust and murder cases.
The spotlight was also on Najib’s wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, as a week after that, she was found guilty of three graft charges in connection with the solar hybrid project worth RM1.25 billion for 369 rural schools in Sarawak and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine of RM970 million by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Sept 1.
On the audit tampering case, the High Court has fixed Jan 30 next year to decide whether Najib and former 1MDB chief executive officer Arul Kanda Kandasamy will be acquitted or ordered to enter their defence. Not satisfied with the ruling, the prosecution filed an appeal to the Court of Appeal on Sept 26, and the court has fixed Jan 10` next year for case management.
Attorney-General Tan Sri Idrus Harun, in a statement, said that the Attorney-General’s Chambers did not proceed with the corruption and money laundering charges against Abdul Azeez as there were no testimonies and facts favouring the prosecution. Another verdict of high profile case that also captured public attention was that involving Kinabatangan MP Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and his wife, Datin Seri Zizie Izette Abdul Samad, who have been ordered by the Sessions Court, on Sept 2, to enter their defence.Bung Moktar and Zizie Izette then filed separate applications at the HIgh Court seeking to review the decision, but their requests were dismissed after the court allowed the prosecution’s preliminary objection against the review.
On Nov 24, the Sessions Court here ordered Rumah Bonda founder Siti Bainun Ahd Razali to enter her defence on charges of neglecting and abusing the 13-year-old girl and fixed Jan 5 next year for the defence trial. On April 13, the Johor Bahru High Court sentenced a female clerk Sam Ke Ting to six years’ jail and a fine of RM6,000 after finding her guilty of reckless driving which caused the death of eight teenage cyclists five years ago.
The court, in finding that Altantuya was shot, had explosives strapped to her body and blown to pieces, held that the plaintiffs have established that the first and second defendants had ruthlessly killed the model and it was a planned and deliberate killing.
And we still wanting to see him in jail, in orange garb.
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