KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has applied to the Court of Appeal to stay or temporarily pause his 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) trial...
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has applied to the Court of Appeal to stay or temporarily pause his 1Malaysia Development Berhad trial in the High Court, until his appeal to remove the trial judge is decided on.
Alaistair confirmed that Najib had yesterday filed the application at the Court of Appeal to seek a stay of the 1MDB trial. Alaistair confirmed that Najib had on August 18 filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal against the 1MDB trial judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah’s dismissal of the bid to remove him from the trial.that the Court of Appeal will be hearing the stay application tomorrow.
Sequerah had rejected Najib’s application to remove him from the 1MDB trial, saying that Najib’s application was solely based on the fact that he was working in the same medium-to-big-sized law firm Zain & Co at the same time as 1MDB’s former in-house lawyer Jasmine Loo up until 2008. 1MDB only came into existence in September 2009.
Among other things, Sequerah said he had not communicated or met with Loo since her 2008 resignation from the law firm, which was 15 years ago, and also said there is no proof of any personal or professional relationship between him and Loo.
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