COMMENT | Judiciary under attack

COMMENT | It began with blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin. His portal Malaysia Today published a piece accusing Court of Appeal judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali of ‘unexplained wealth’ - RM1 million purportedly received from Low Taek Jho or better known as Jho Low. 

Normally, such allegations from Malaysia Today would not cause much of a stir, but his accusations were picked up by some members of Umno, such as former Johor Bahru MP Shahrir Samad who republished parts of the portal’s allegations on his Facebook. 

Nazlan subsequently lodged a police report and denied what Raja Petra said, through the chief registrar of the Federal Court. But it did not end there...