Kuala Lumpur: The sessions court’s conviction of former Sabah infrastructure development minister Peter Anthony is unsafe and must be set aside as the prosecution has failed to prove the charge of forgery brought against him beyond reasonable doubt, the High Court here heard.
Peter’s lawyer, S Devanathan, said the prosecution had failed to prove that the Melalap assemblyman had falsified a letter of support from the office of the deputy vice-chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Sabah . “There are material gaps in the prosecution’s case,” the lawyer contended.
Peter is alleged to have added a title to the letter before it was handed over on June 13, 2014, to Azlin Alias, Najib’s principal private secretary at the time. Deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin submitted that the prosecution had sufficiently proved its case by presenting strong circumstantial evidence based on Peter’s conduct. “He went all out to get the project through deception although he knew another company had won it,” he added.
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