IPOH: The High Court here has fixed Aug 1 for mention, giving both the prosecution and the defence time to file written submissions regarding the bail application of a senior police officer charged with the murder of a secondary school student last year. Justice Datuk Bhupindar Singh Gurcharan Singh Preet said that he would set a...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here has allowed Toh Puan Na'imah Khalid, the wife of Tun Daim Zainuddin, the temporary release of her passport for travel to Singapore and Switzerland. Judge Azura Alwi allowed the application made by Na'imah's lawyer M Puravalen for the release of her travel documents after Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Wan Shaharuddin...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has postponed Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Tan Sri Irwan Serigar Abdullah’s RM6.6 bil criminal breach of trust trial by two weeks. The trial was initially scheduled to begin on Tuesday (June 4) but will now begin on June 19. Justice Muhammad Jamil Hussin made the postponement to give time for both...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court was told that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner and the Attorney General were replaced when the investigation into corruption involving 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) took place. MACC senior officer Nur Aida Ariffin, who is the investigating officer of the probe, testified that there was a change in the two...
KUALA LUMPUR The Attorney-General Chambers (AGC) has dismissed the representation submitted by former UMNO Youth Exco Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris to drop the charge against him for allegedly making seditious remarks linking the government to pro-Israel and pro-Western countries last year. Sessions Court Judge Siti Aminah Ghazali was informed of the matter by deputy public...
KUALA LUMPUR: They used to be good friends, even going for holidays abroad together, but things turned ugly for Jasmine Loo as she claimed to have been threatened by Low Taek Jho during her isolation in Bangkok, the High Court has heard. The former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) general counsel also told the High Court that...
KUALA LUMPUR: Former 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) general counsel Jasmine Loo told the High Court that she became a fugitive for five years after Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, swore to make her life "a living hell" if she returned to Malaysia. In an explosive testimony, the 50th prosecution witness finally told her tale of...
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak is accountable for his every action as the prime minister, finance minister and chairman of the board of advisors of 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the High Court was told on Friday (Jan 26). Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) senior officer Nur Aida Arifin testified that Najib, or the 1MDB management, had...
IPOH: Five men were charged at a Sessions Court here for committing gang robbery at a semiconductor factory. Mohd Nizam Abd Rahim, 40; Junaidy Ali, 46; Muhamad Rozaidi Yusoff,42; Rizuan Mohamad Yusof, 32; and Zairul Nizam Mohd Sazali, 47; claimed trial to the charges before Sessions Court Judge Ainul Shahrin Mohamad on Tuesday (Oct 3). According to...
KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution will prove that an "unemployed" Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor received large sums of money into her current account at Affin Bank Berhad and used it to pay telephone and credit card bills incurred by her and members of her family. Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib said the wife of Datuk Seri...
