Trial judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, who heard submissions from lawyers today, will deliver his ruling on Monday.
KUALA LUMPUR: Najib Razak’s lawyer told the High Court today that the former prime minister would be deprived of a fair trial as the seven charges related to SRC International Sdn Bhd are vague and he is unable to put up a credible defence.“A fair trial is akin to the right to life under our Federal Constitution. Najib would be put at a disadvantage if the charges are defective,” the lawyer said in his submission before judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali.
The application is based on grounds that the charges against Najib are defective in form and substance, and that they constitute an abuse of court process. The Pekan MP was charged with committing the offences at AmIslamic Bank Bhd in Jalan Raja Chulan and the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya between Aug 17, 2011, and Feb 10, 2015.
The three money laundering charges, he added, are not a principal offence unlike CBT and abuse of power. Yusof said Najib could not be charged with money laundering together with CBT and abuse of power as the first is only reserved for a subsidiary offender. Sithambaram also said Najib would have understood the charges as the prosecution had supplied 7,000 pages of documents to be used in trial, apart from the charge sheets.
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