Trial of Najib’s wife for $2.2mil money laundering and tax evasion case starts in May

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KUALA LUMPUR - The graft trial of Rosmah Mansor, the wife of ex-Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, involving RM7mil (S$2.2 million) in money laundering and tax evasion is scheduled for May next year. High Court judge Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan fixed the dates for the...

The offences were allegedly committed at Affin Bank’s branch at Jalan Ampang in Kuala Lumpur between Dec 4, 2013, and June 8, 2017 and at LHDN on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim, also in KL, between May 1, 2014, and May 1, 2018.

Rosmah’s bid to recuse Justice Mohamed Zaini from hearing the case is currently at the Court of Appeal stage. In her recusal applications, Rosmah, among others, claimed that there was a danger of Justice Mohamed Zaini being prejudiced and biased against her if he presided over the money laundering case, as he had presided over her solar hybrid graft trial related to rural schools in Sarawak.related to the solar hybrid project worth RM1.25 billion for 369 rural schools in Sarawak, and sentenced her to 10 years in prison and a fine of RM970 million.

Rosmah is out on bail pending her appeal against the conviction and sentence at the Court of Appeal. - THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK

 

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