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KUALA LUMPUR -- Former Prime Minister Najib Razak began his final appeal to overturn a 12-year prison sentence in the country's supreme court on Monda.

Najib Razak is seeking to adduce new evidence to show that judge Nazlan Ghazali presided over his trial while under a 'serious conflict of interest'.

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Their application via a letter to the court to adjourn the main appeal was rejected last month. After the conclusion of the arguments for the motion for fresh evidence, Najib’s team will again make an oral application before the court to adjourn the main appeal. It is understood that during a case management on Aug 10, the first order of business fixed for the day will be Najib’s application to amend a motion he filed to adduce fresh evidence in the case.

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That means that Najib would only have to spend a maximum of 12 years behind bars. For these, he was sentenced to 12 years’ jail and fined RM210 million. So, they are likely to formally ask for a postponement of the appeal hearing proper.

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Najib had filed in a notice of motion dated June 7 to the court seeking permission to adduce additional evidence and another notice of motion dated July 15 to amend the original notice of motion. The additional evidence Najib seeks to adduce relates to the "discovery" that Justice Mohd Nazlan was the general counsel and company secretary for Maybank Group. This was said by the Pekan MP's lead counsel Hisyam Teh Poh Teik (pic) in his submission in the motion to adduce new evidence in the appeal at the Federal Court here on Monday (Aug 15).

PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Razak's final bid to clear his name over the SRC International case began today with his lawyer arguing that the Federal Court ...

The former prime minister was convicted by Nazlan on July 28, 2020 on seven charges of abuse of power and misappropriation of RM42 million of SRC International funds. He was sentenced to 12 years jail and fined RM210 million and this was reaffirmed by the Court of Appeal on Dec 8 last year. Hisyam said his client was unaware of the judge's involvement in the establishment of 1MDB subsidiary SRC International and the loans extended to the company by Maybank.

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The defence in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's SRC International Sdn Bhd case has pointed out that High Court judge Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali had a role in ...

“As a long-term employee of Maybank, his previous conduct may also be grounds for a reasonable person to believe that he cannot act with an objective mind. “The trial judge (Nazlan) had a conflict of interest which disqualified him from presiding over the SRC trial and consequently, whether he was in breach of the rule against bias for continuing presiding and adjudicated upon the SRC case,” the senior lawyer said. Lead defence counsel Hisyam Teh Poh Teik said while Nazlan was Maybank's general counsel and company secretary from 2006 to 2015, the bank had given a RM140 million loan to Putra Perdana Development Sdn Bhd (PPD), where SRC was a beneficiary, and also a RM4.17 billion loan to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) for the acquisition of Tanjong Energy, making the judge a potential witness in both the SRC and 1MDB trial.

PUTRAJAYA: The prosecution today rubbished Datuk Seri Najib Razak's arguments that he needed to introduce new evidence in a bid to clear his name over the ...

"The application is flawed and cannot be taken to be an application for fresh or additional evidence as the evidence was in the possession of the applicant and it has also been shown to be irrelevant," he said. "There is actually no fresh or additional evidence to be admitted as the applicant (Najib) and his defence team had in their possession all evidence that they now seek to introduce as additional or fresh evidence," he said in the prosecution's written and also oral submissions. He said it was incredible for Najib to claim ignorance of this fact especially before and during the SRC trial in view of the publicity given to Justice Nazlan's role in Maybank.

The former prime minister's application is not supported by affidavits deposed by the MACC and bank officers for this court to act upon.

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Lawyers for former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak sought on Monday to introduce fresh evidence for a re-trial, a final bid to overturn a 12-year jail ...

In July 2020, he was convicted in the first of several trials of criminal breach of trust, abuse of power and money laundering, for illegally receiving about $10 million from SRC International, a former 1MDB unit. Najib, 69, has pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges over the alleged theft of $4.5 billion from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a state fund he co-founded as premier in 2009. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

PUTRAJAYA (Aug 15): The new team of lawyers representing Datuk Seri Najib Razak today sought to convince a five-judge panel in the Federal Court to present ...

Hisyam also argued that the documentary evidence sought to be adduced has not been denied by the respondent on the basis of its genuineness or chain of custody. In his supporting affidavit, Najib said the evidence he sought to adduce was not made available to him at trial, adding that the evidence were relevant to the issues before the High Court and Court of Appeal and thus would be relevant to his appeals that would be adjudicated in the Federal Court. Hisyam said the four conditions can be summarised as evidence that was not available during the trial, relevant to the issues, credible evidence well capable of belief, and reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the appellant.

Lawyers for the former leader are seeking to have the case thrown out on the grounds that a trial judge had a conflict of interest.

Since then, the 69-year-old Najib has been open about his ambition of running again for elected office, and a large part of his response to the 1MDB accusations has been to mobilize his ethnic Malay political base and paint the charges as a political plot. The Federal Court has blocked out nine days of hearings for Najib’s appeal. In July 2020, the former leader was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $50 million after being found guilty on charges including criminal breach of trust, abuse of power, and money laundering.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 15 — The new team of lawyers representing Datuk Seri Najib Razak today sought to convince a five-judge panel in the Federal Court to present ...

Hisyam also argued that the documentary evidence sought to be adduced has not been denied by the respondent on the basis of its genuineness or chain of custody. In his supporting affidavit, Najib said the evidence he sought to adduce was not made available to him at trial, adding that the evidence were relevant to the issues before the High Court and Court of Appeal and thus would be relevant to his appeals that would be adjudicated in the Federal Court. Hisyam said the four conditions can be summarised as evidence that was not available during the trial, relevant to the issues, credible evidence well capable of belief, and reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the appellant.

The prosecution has described the contents of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's six affidavits in support of his application to adduce fresh ...

Justice Nazlan cannot be in a position of conflict of interest just because of Maybank's loans to 1MDB or PPD," he submitted. The applicant in a desperate attempt is now raising these unfounded allegations against a judge who cannot defend himself," he said. In opposing the lawyers' request, Sithambaram said: "We don't know what they (the officers) are going to say. Najib's contention is that while Nazlan was Maybank's general counsel and company secretary from 2006 to 2015, the bank gave a RM140 million loan to Putra Perdana Development Sdn Bhd (PPD), of which SRC was a beneficiary, and also a RM4.17 billion loan to 1MDB for the acquisition of Tanjong Energy, making the judge a potential witness in both SRC and 1MDB trials. Sithambaram added that the application is "couched too widely and fails to specify with certainty the type of evidence to be adduced" and its relevance to the appeal. The prosecutor said the affidavits in support of Najib's application are "self-serving" to the former premier because no one is willing to put their neck out to testify for him.

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The evidence pertains to trial judge Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, who had earlier convicted and sentenced Najib to 12 years in jail and a RM210mil fine.

The information was available in the public domain, hence it was “preposterous” to claim that it was a fact “recently discovered” or “deliberately suppressed”. “News agencies such as Malaysiakini, The New Straits Times and The Star have brought Justice Mohd Nazlan’s career background, including the Maybank employment, to the attention of the public before the commencement of the SRC trial,” Sithambaram pointed out. Najib, the Pekan MP, wants to add several documents and information following the “discovery” that the judge was the general counsel and company secretary for Maybank Group between 2006 and 2015. Lead counsel Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told the court that the judge had conflicted himself with his roles in Maybank’s engagement in the formation of SRC, Maybank’s loan of RM140mil to Putra Perdana Development Bhd where SRC was the beneficiary, and Maybank’s RM4.17bil loan to 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). Hisyam said the issue of bias stemmed from Justice Mohd Nazlan’s previous employment with Maybank. (Mohd Nazlan is currently a Court of Appeal judge). The evidence pertains to trial judge Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, who had earlier convicted and sentenced Najib to 12 years in jail and a RM210mil fine.

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Najib, who was represented by the law firm of Muhammad Shafee Abdullah since the first 1MDB charges were filed four years ago, appointed a new legal team to handle the appeal on July 26. If the new evidence is allowed, the conviction will be dismissed and he will face retrial on the charges. Active in politics at a young age, Najib got his first big break 40 years ago when he was elected Pahang state chief minister in 1982 at age 29. In addition to being sentenced to a dozen years in prison, he was fined 210 million ringgit (U.S. $47 million). “Everything hinges on the appeal. This was discovered only in May 2022,” said defense attorney Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, according to a live report of the hearing posted on The Edge Markets website.

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Should Najib fail in this application, his appeal proper will commence before the court. It is Najib’s contention that Nazlan — who sentenced him to 12 years jail and a RM210 million fine at the High Court stage of the SRC International trial — had a conflict of interest in hearing the case. Earlier in the day, Hisyam had argued that during Nazlan’s tenure as general counsel and company secretary of Maybank from 2006 to 2015, the bank had given the RM140 million loan to PPD — where SRC was a beneficiary — as well as the RM4.17 billion loan to 1MDB for the acquisition of Tanjong Energy.

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Should Najib fail in this application, his appeal proper will commence before the court. "The court need not go into the merits of Najib's application. In addition, Najib must prove he has knowledge to what is affirmed but here, he has not shown that," Sithambaram added. Besides this, the defence is seeking evidence from former 1MDB chief executive officer Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi, and Rosli Hussain, the SRC investigating officer for the MACC. This is fundamental law," he added. Najib is seeking to adduce fresh evidence in the trial by calling five witnesses to be freshly examined and cross-examined.

Najib faces 12 years in jail and RM210 million in fines should he fail in his final appeal to overturn the conviction. Read more at straitstimes.com.

While Najib's appeal is scheduled to run until Aug 26, the outcome is expected to be made known only at a later date, as the court usually sets another date to deliver a decision. The defence sought to cast doubt on Justice Nazlan's credibility, saying that the verdict was compromised by his prior employment at Maybank, one of Malaysia's largest lenders.

In his application, Najib Razak said judge Nazlan Ghazali should have recused himself from presiding over the SRC International case.

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PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has dismissed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's application to adduce fresh evidence in his final SRC ...

"There are strong points of law, serious arguments to canvass... Hisyam said the court could see the strong arguments that the defence presented during the submissions for the application to adduce fresh evidence and this bona fide application to adjourn was by no means a delay tactic. "To our mind, there is no miscarriage of justice," she said in the unanimous decision.

Senior counsel Hisyam Teh Poh Teik requested for an adjournment to the hearing of the appeal after stating that he needed time to prepare as he had just being ...

"It is my fault.... Hisyam added he had never asked for adjournments in the four and a half decades he had been practicing as a lawyer. Senior counsel Hisyam Teh Poh Teik requested for an adjournment to the hearing of the appeal after stating that he needed time to prepare as he had just being appointed as lead counsel for the case.

Malaysia's highest court dismissed former Prime Minister Najib Razak's second bid to add new evidence in an appeal against his conviction in a case linked ...

Earlier today, Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat said the application to adduce additional evidence did not fulfil the requirements of the law.

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This follows a five-member bench led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat dismissing an application to adjourn proceedings made by the former premier's ...

PUTRAJAYA: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has failed in his final bid to stay his appeal in the SRC International Sdn Bhd trial at the Federal ...

"This is his right to do so but he cannot, after having made that decision, turn around and say that his new lawyers are not ready to proceed with the hearing of the appeals. ALSO READ: Najib's final SRC appeal: Apex court rejects application to adduce fresh evidence ALSO READ: Najib's final SRC appeal: Apex court stands down to mull over new evidence bid

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"It is my fault.... "It is the appellant's right to discharge his former solicitors and appoint new ones. Hisyam had requested for an adjournment to the hearing of the appeal after stating that he needed time to prepare as he had just being appointed as lead counsel for the case. Earlier, Hisyam had pleaded for three to four months to prepare for the appeal. Touching on Najib's decision to change counsel at the last minute, she said this was done with full knowledge of the dates that had been fixed for hearing. She said the defence application to postpone the hearing by three to four months just because they were not ready to proceed was unacceptable.

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“I also believe that the investigation conducted by the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) will also bear this fact. But unfortunately, this was not so,” Hisyam added. Nazlan had sentenced Najib to 12 years in jail and a fine of RM210 million.

Former premier Najib Abdul Razak is “shocked and bitterly disappointed” with the Federal Court's decision not to allow his application to adduce additional ...

Former prime minister was convicted of abuse of power and money laundering involving a state investment fund.

Some information in this report came from The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. The high court dismissed that bid Tuesday, saying there was no evidence of bias in the case. Malaysia’s highest court said Tuesday it will hear a final appeal by former prime minister Najib Razak in a corruption case involving a state investment fund.

Najib Razak is attempting to quash his conviction for abuse of power, money laundering and criminal breach of trust over SRC International funds amounting ...

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Malaysia's top court on Tuesday denied a request by former Prime Minister Najib Razak to introduce new evidence in his final appeal against a 12-year jail ...

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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (third from left) walks out of a federal courtroom after judges rejected his request for a retrial in Putrajaya, ...

I thought the court would be sympathetic and exercise its discretion, and we feel there is a basis for them to exercise their discretion in our favor. After a two-year trial, he was convicted of seven charges, including abuse of power, criminal breach of trust, and money laundering, concerning 42 million ringgit (U.S. $9.4 million) of SRC International money found in his bank accounts. In addition to being sentenced to a dozen years in prison, he was fined 210 million ringgit (U.S. $47 million). On Tuesday, the Federal Court panel also flatly refused the defense’s request for a delay to the appeal phase. A five-judge panel unanimously turned down his legal team’s request to retry his conviction by a lower court and postpone the long-awaited hearings in his final appeal by several months. The judge, they said, was tainted because he had been associated with a bank that did business with 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), according to information that came out after Nazlan handed down the ruling against Najib in July 2020. This is no ordinary case … and there are strong points of law. “There are 179 bundles of documents. “We put up strong grounds. However, Chief Justice Tengku Maimun said the court found that the request and reasons for the delay were “neither cogent nor reasonable” because Najib was aware of the hearing date well in advance. In Tuesday’s ruling, the panel headed by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat said the court could not find any link that could lead to “a real danger of bias” and there was “no miscarriage of justice.” Malaysia’s Federal Court on Tuesday rejected former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s petition to present new evidence related to his conviction for corruption, clearing the way for a final hearing on his appeal of a 12-year-sentence in a case linked to the 1MDB financial scandal.