Prasannkumar 
Najib’s SRC International appeal A quick timeline
further stunner news can be anticipated to break latterly this morning, but for now, then’s a quick recap of the SRC International corruption case therefore far.
Najib Razak, Malaysia’s sixth high minister, who held the post for further than nine years from 2009 to 2018, and whose government was deposed at the 14th general election after failing to arrest the counterreaction from the 1MDB debacle, was arrested on July 3, 2018.
He was charged in the Kuala Lumpur sessions court the following day on three counts of felonious breach of trust and one count of abuse of power in relation to the misappropriation of RM42 million in finances belonging to SRC International, also a 1MDB attachment.
He was slighted further with three plutocrat laundering charges on Aug 8 that year.
After a 79- day trial held between April 3, 2019, and March 11, 2020, which saw 86 substantiations swear, Najib was on July 28, 2020, condemned by trial judge Nazlan Ghazali of all charges and doomed to 12 times imprisonment and an RM210 million forfeiture. Nazlan latterly released an 801- runner judgment explaining his decision.
Najib appealed to the Court of Appeal from that decision, and on Dec 8 last time, after a 15- day hail, a three-member panel in the Court of Appeal comprising judges Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil, Has Zanah Mehat and Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera unanimously upheld both the conviction and judgment passed by the High Court. Their grounds are contained in a 317- runner written judgment.
Najib filed an appeal to the Federal Court on the same day, and on April 25 this time filed a solicitation of appeal citing 94 matters which he claims were crimes of law and fact made by the complainant court in its judgment. Shortly later, the Federal Court fixed the former high minister’s appeal for a hearing from Aug 15 to 26.
On May 31, UK counsel Jonathan Laidlaw, QC, applied to the Kuala Lumpur High Court for ad hoc admission to enable him to argue the appeal at the Federal Court on Najib’s behalf. That operation was rejected on July 21.
In the meantime, on June 10, Najib filed a stir to cite fresh substantiation to show Nazlan ought to have recused himself due to a serious conflict of interest which traduced his right to a fair trial. Najib sought a retrial of the case before another High Court judge.
On July 25, for reasons which he explained in a media statement issued history, Najib appointed the law establishment Said Ibrahim Suflan TH Liew & Partners as his solicitors in place of Shafee & Co, with Hisyam Teh Poh Teik replacing Shafee Abdullah as supereminent counsel.
The following day, his new solicitors wrote to the Federal Court seeking an adjournment of the appeal, which by now was a bare three weeks down. The request was rejected by the apex court both in jotting and at case operation three days latterly.
The stir to admit fresh substantiation was heard on Monday and Tuesday morning this week. On Tuesday autumn, the apex court unanimously dismissed the stir.
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