News by Timothy Achariam

The High Court has allowed an application for summary judgment by the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) in its lawsuit against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s son, Datuk Mohd Nazifuddin.

YHA filed its suit on Nov 2 last year, claiming that the trade and industry minister and his family members owe the travel agency some RM329,000 in alleged unpaid bills incurred for several trips,

The suit by YHA Travel and Tours (M) Sdn Bhd was filed at the Sessions Court here on Nov 2 last year, through Messrs Fong Yap & Gan, on the grounds that Azmin, who is Senior Minister of International Trade and Industry, owes the travel agency for bills incurred by trips including his much-publicised Sandakan visit during the by-election there last year.

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.