JOHOR BARU: The High Court here has allowed a preliminary objection to the habeas corpus application filed by GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Nasiruddin Mohd Ali and his wife Azura Md Yusof. The application challenges their detention under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) 2012. In delivering his decision on Tuesday (Jan 14), Justice...
KUALA LUMPUR: The government is applying for a gag order to prevent public discussion on a purported addendum that Datuk Seri Najib Razak claims would allow him to serve the remainder of his SRC International Sdn Bhd prison sentence under house arrest. Senior Federal Counsel Shamsul Bolhassan - representing the Federal Territory Pardons Board, the government,...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Attorney-General's Chambers intends to challenge the High Court's decision that cleared Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor of money laundering and tax evasion charges. Lead prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib confirmed the plan to appeal following the proceedings on Thursday (Dec 19). Rosmah had filed to quash her 12 charges of money laundering involving more than RM7mil...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court's acquittal in her money laundering and tax evasion case came as a "meaningful gift" during Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor's birthday month. The wife of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was all smiles as she expressed relief at closing this chapter after six years of legal battle. "My lawyers have assured...
KUALA LUMPUR: Lim Guan Eng has filed an appeal against the High Court's omission of an order for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to pay interest on RM1.35mil damages in a defamation lawsuit that Lim won. The notice of appeal was filed at the Court of Appeal through Guok Partnership on Nov 29. In the notice, Lim stated...
TAWAU: The prosecution in the trial of 13 Kolej Vokasional Lahad Datu students charged with murdering Mohamad Nazmie Aizzat Mohd Narul Azwan will prove that the accused assaulted the Biotechnology programme student before he died. Deputy Public Prosecutor Nur Nisla Abd Latif said an autopsy conducted on March 23, 2024, confirmed that Mohamad Nazmie Aizzat's cause...
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak has “certain regrets” over what happened to SRC International Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) that suffered losses in the billions of ringgit, the High Court here heard. The former prime minister, however, maintained he had no knowledge of the funds channelled out of the company that...
KUALA LUMPUR: Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) chairman Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah has failed in his bid to include six other individuals as third parties in the US$6.59bil (RM28.5bil) lawsuit filed against him by 1MDB. High Court Commissioner Raja Ahmad Mohzanuddin Shah Raja Mohzan granted the application of the six individuals to dismiss the...
KUALA LUMPUR: There has never been evidence that showed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was at AmIslamic Bank Bhd to commit the crime he is accused of, the High Court here was told. Najib's lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah submitted that the prosecution never showed evidence that the former Pekan MP was...
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng told the High Court on Tuesday (Aug 14) that allegations about the arrest of his son at Singapore Changi Airport four years ago, spread by blogger Papagomo, have been denied by former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador. Lim, 64, said that Abdul Hamid, on...
