Shafee 'suppressed' RM9.5m legal fees from taxman: Prosecution

Lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah hid from the taxman legal fees of RM9.5 million that he received from then-prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, the prosecution contended today.

Lead deputy public prosecutor Afzainizam Abdul Aziz said this in the prosecution’s opening statement on the first day of Shafee’s RM9.5 million money-laundering trial.

“The accused is...