News by Hafiz Yatim

A three-member bench unanimously ruled that these police statements used in the criminal trial are not privileged documents which should have been kept away from the public for civil cases.

“Following that (case management), Justice Zaini fixed Jan 7 [next year] as another case management [date], pending the decision on the [RM42 million] SRC case [in the Court of Appeal].”

Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah also said Sri Ram's appointment should have been made under Section 379 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) first and not only under Section 376(3).

The date was fixed by Federal Court deputy registrar Rasidah Roslee during case management today.

Judicial Commissioner Ong Chee Kwan, who granted the extension, also fixed Nov 25 to hear the group’s sanction application to approve a scheme of arrangement.

“In his meeting with Najib, Shafee also informed the then prime minister that he needed RM9.5 million to purchase the Bukit Tunku home. Shafee told me that Najib had asked him (Shafee) to take the RM9.5 million first via two cheques of RM4.3 million and RM5.2 million. The RM9.5 million, Shafee said, was as a loan until Najib comes up with a rationalisation [for the payment],” said one of the witnesses.

A substituted service is where law firms would advertise in newspapers and place notices in the court premises

Datuk Seri Najib Razak and former 1MDB chief executive officer Arul Kanda Kandasamy are on trial over 1MDB audit report tampering charges

On Sept 9, a three-member bench led by Justice Datuk Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil dismissed Najib and Nazifuddin's appeal on the grounds there is no merit in the two appeals and no error in the judgement of the two High Court judges

This comes after the court deferred delivering its decision on Thursday (Sept 9).