PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Razak filed an application to have Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram recused as prosecutor in the 1MDB audit report tampering case.
Datuk Seri Najib Razak at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on June 1, 2020. -REUTERS/ Lim Huey Tengfiled an application to have Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram recused as prosecutor in the 1MDB audit report tampering case.
“Yes, we filed an application to disqualify Sri Ram from being the deputy public prosecutor in the case.“We served the application on the Attorney General’s Chamber today in the early afternoon,” he said. Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib had also said that the case management will be at 9am next Monday before Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan.
Sri Ram, who is also a former Federal Court judge, is the lead prosecutor in the joint trial of Najib and former 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy relating to the tampering of 1MDB audit report.
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