JOHOR BARU: The High Court here acquitted and discharged an unemployed man over a murder case in Senai five years ago. S. Adinarayanan, 43, walked out a free man after Judge Kan Wen Hin found him not guilty of murdering T. Krishnan, 64, on Thursday (Nov 27). According to the charge sheet, he was accused of causing...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has granted leave to the family of the late Tun Daim Zainuddin to commence a judicial review against the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) order to freeze their bank accounts and assets. Justice Aliza Sulaiman allowed the application on grounds that it had met the necessary threshold for leave to be granted. She...
KOTA KINABALU: Upko secretary general Senator Datuk Wences Anggang has defended the party president Datuk Ewon Benedick’s stand to resign from the Cabinet if the Federal Government decides to appeal the High Court decision affirming Sabah’s constitutional right to 40% revenue return. Anggang said that the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Minister’s statement was not a threat...
SHAH ALAM: The first-day proceedings of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's defamation suit against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the High Court here on Tuesday (Oct 21), concerning the Prime Minister's speech during the special Malaysia Madani National Congress: 'Implementation of an Idealism', lasted less than 30 minutes. According to Sinar Harian, after answering three additional questions...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has obtained a court order to block transactions involving US$115.3mil or about RM486.4mil kept in three Swiss bank accounts under the name of Prince Turki Abdullah Abdulaziz Al-Saud. In a statement on Friday (Oct 10), MACC said the restraining order was granted by the Kuala Lumpur High Court to...
KLANG: A 22-year-old student accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and setting fire to her body in Sungai Besar, Selangor, two years ago maintained his guilty plea at the High Court here on Monday (Sept 29). Sinar Harian reports that defence lawyer Muhammad Nor Tamrin, representing Muhammad Fakrul Aiman Sajali, told the court that his client...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has deferred its decision in a lawsuit by SRC International Sdn Bhd against Datuk Seri Najib Razak and former SRC CEO Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil over breach of fiduciary duty. Justice Ahmad Fairuz Zainol Abidin said he would need time to deliberate on the submissions by the parties in the case. "The...
KLANG: Five men were charged in the Sessions Court here on Thursday (Aug 28) for allegedly smuggling 19 Myanmar nationals at an apartment in Hulu Langat earlier this month. Muhammad Azalmie Ahmad Razali, 25; Muhammad Irwan Syapawi Che Hamid, 34; Mazlan Derahman, 39; Hazif Yusof, 46; and Mohamad Yusof Zulkipli, 29, nodded in acknowledgement as the...
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Umno Youth Exco Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris, better known as Papagomo, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt of court. High Court Judicial Commissioner Gan Techiong, who delivered the ruling, found that Wan Muhammad Azri had breached a court injunction in relation to an ongoing defamation suit filed by former...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has fixed Oct 31 to deliver its decision in an attempt by Toh Puan Na'imah Abdul Khalid to intervene in an application by the public prosecutor involving offshore assets in the British Crown dependency of Jersey. Justice Muhammad Jamil Hussin fixed the date for the hearing as well as to deliver...
