KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court on Wednesday (Aug 28) dismissed an application by the prosecution to revise the Sessions Court decision to allow the transfer of Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's seven corruption charges to the Shah Alam Sessions Court.
High Court judge Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, in his judgement, said that he found no error in the decision made by the Sessions Court.
Justice Mohd Nazlan also said that there was"little difference" to the prosecution's witnesses, whether the charges were heard in the Sessions Court here or in Shah Alam. Deputy Public Prosecutor Gan Peng Kun had earlier argued that it was in the interest of justice to have the charges heard in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court as most of the prosecution's witnesses were based in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.
On July 31, Sessions Court judge Azman Ahmad allowed Zahid's application to transfer the seven charges, which were originally slated to be heard in Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, to be heard together with the other 33 charges he was facing at the Shah Alam Sessions Court.
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