News by Hafiz Yatim

Justice Datuk Zabidin Md Diah said the High Court cannot rule that a portion of the passage in the book The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Exposé will be the subject of a trial, while the three other passages were left out.

Riza's former lawyers who represented him in his money laundering case confirmed they are not representing Riza in the 1MDB lawsuit.

Ismee had testified against Najib in the SRC International Sdn Bhd criminal trial while Shahrol Azral and Hazem have testified in the 1MDB-Tanore trial.

Justice Abdul Karim who sat with Justice Datuk Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera and Justice Datuk Supang Lian unanimously dismissed the suggestion made by Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah to pose five questions of law to be decided by the apex court, like in the landmark decision of Semenyih Jaya Sdn Bhd land tax case

Justice Ahmad Fairuz also directed the company to file its reply to their defence by Sept 30, and the court will have its next case management on Oct 4

The other defendants are retained, namely former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak (who was the advisor emeritus of SRC), former SRC directors Datuk Suboh Md Yasin, Datuk Mohammed Azhar Osman Khairuddin and Datuk Che Abdullah@Rashidi Che Omar, and fugitive Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil

All these forfeiture actions filed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in 2019 are part of the 40 plus individuals and entities named as recipients of monies from former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak

Similarly, today’s hearing for Muhyiddin's application to make the injunction permanent has also been deferred until the same date.

The money could have been the collection when Bersatu was about to be deregistered before contesting in 2018, and as a result there was no proper financial management as donations were coming in.

"Yes the notice was filed at 12.30pm today. The case will be appealed to the Federal Court."