High Court verdict against Najib revisited
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It has been four long years since Najib Abdul Razak was charged with abuse of power, money laundering, and criminal breach of trust in the SRC International case.
While his court battle, in this case, climaxed today with the Federal Court sending him to jail for 12 years, the basis of the sentence is rooted in the High Court's July 2020 judgement on the case.
Appeals at both the Court of Appeal and Federal Court are processes by which the defence seeks to overturn the lower court's ruling on technical grounds.
Thus, to put today's verdict into context, Malaysiakini revisits key points from the ruling by trial judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali.
Najib was involved in SRC
Nazlan said...
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