News by Timothy Achariam

Shahrol: It was not something I wanted to read. The authors actually contacted me to ask what I thought about it and asked for some comments.

Responding to questions from Najib's lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, Shahrol said he should not be charged and that he never made a deal with the prosecution and the MACC to testify against Najib.

Bringing a close to the trial, High Court Judge Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan set the dates for prosecution and defence lawyers to give their submissions before the court.

Magistrate Mohamad Aizat Abdul Rahim meted out the sentence against Ahmad Saiful, 32, saying that the prosecution had succeeded in proving that the case was beyond reasonable doubt before the court.

The three man bench led by Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Yaacob Md Sam had quashed Zahid’s appeal and upheld the decision made by High Court Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah.

Justice Datuk Ahmad Bache said today that the court will take about a month to arrive at a decision and that both camps will be informed a week before the decision is delivered.

His lawyer, Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla, told the court that the Parti Warisan Sabah vice-president had been warded in the KPJ Kota Kinabalu hospital in Sabah yesterday evening.

The prosecution is appealing against the Court of Appeal's decision in allowing Tengku Adnan's application for High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali to recuse himself from hearing the case.

The government needed more time to study expert reports on the feedlot project, senior federal counsel Azizan Arshad said in the High Court today.

The jewellery and other items belonged mostly to Najib’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, who was already granted permission by the High Court to physically inspect the items worth RM680 million in March.