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Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak submitted an application on Monday night (Aug 22) to have Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat recused from ...

He was also sentenced to 10 years in jail for each of the CBT and money laundering charges. For the power abuse offence, he was sentenced to 12 years in jail and fined RM210 million. Najib is out on a RM2 million bail with two sureties pending the appeal. He was also found guilty on three counts each of criminal breach of trust (CBT) and money laundering involving RM42 million of SRC funds. This resulted in an exchange between Tengku Maimun and Hisyam. According to Najib's affidavit in support, he is seeking to recuse Tengku Maimun from being on the bench and also presiding over the appeal based on the grounds that Zamani has been critical of the former premier.

The former premier's lead counsel Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told the court that the defence filed the application to recuse the top judge late last night. He added a ...

“Similarly, the Chief Justice must be held to the same standards as being proposed by the Bar Council and this supports my contention that there is a real danger of bias,” said the former prime minister. To put the matter into perspective, Najib contended that when his SRC trial started, the first presiding judge Datuk Mohd Sofian Abd Razak was said to have a brother who was a member of Umno and in the Executive Council of Pahang, and had issued a statement calling for his recusal on the basis that the public may perceive that justice is not seen to be done. “In fact, I verily believe that in the event this Honourable Court is to decide against me with the Honourable Chief Justice presiding, the informed and fair-minded observer will attribute the same to the issues raised above,” he said. “I verily believe the above-named individual Zamani Ibrahim is the husband to the honourable Chief Justice that is the chairperson of the judicial panel that is hearing my final appeal of the SRC case in the Federal Court,” he stated in the affidavit. He further said that with Zamani being the husband of the chairperson adjudicating his appeal, it was likely that he would have influenced the thinking of the mind of the chairperson as to his alleged culpability. According to the originating motion, the application was not made to disrespect the court, especially the Chief Justice and the ongoing proceedings, but rather made in the interests of protecting the independence of the judiciary.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 23 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak has made an eleventh-hour bid to recuse Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat from presiding over his final ...

"Being the husband of the chairperson that is adjudicating my appeal it is likely that he would have influenced the thinking of the mind of the chairperson as to my alleged culpability. "I further state that considering the nature of their spousal relationship, it is likely that the mind of the learned chairperson would have been unconsciously influenced by the sentiments against me held by her ladyship’s husband," Najib wrote. According to Najib, he verily believed the aforementioned individual is the chief justice's husband, who is also the chairman of the judicial panel hearing his final appeal of the SRC case.

PUTRAJAYA: Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has filed an application to recuse Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat from presiding over his final ...

This is Najib’s final bid to overturn the guilty conviction. Najib later filed a petition of appeal to the Federal Court on Apr 25 this year. But the bench dismissed his request. Mr Teh was joined by Mr Muhammad Shafee Abdullah in the defence’s application. Citing a social media post by the Chief Judge’s husband in 2018, Mr Teh said it is clear that he had negative sentiments towards Najib’s leadership. Advertisement

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak on Tuesday asked the chief justice to recuse herself from a panel presiding over his final appeal to set aside a ...

Prosecutors have said some $4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB - co-founded by Najib during his first year as prime minister in 2009. Najib changed his legal team just three weeks before the final appeals process began last week. In the sense that his opinions, his views would affect (the chief justice's) findings in respect of the appeal right now," Najib's lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told the court. "Because of the spousal relationship... Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com