08-23-2022, 07:51 PM
Prosecution’s case made out, Najib’s defence ‘incredible’, ‘inconsistent’, Federal Court says
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PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has held that former prime minister Najib Razak’s conviction on all seven charges preferred against him was safe.
In a unanimous decision contained in broad grounds of judgment and read out by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, the court said: “We are not satisfied that any of the findings of the courts below are perverse so as to warrant appellate intervention from this court.”
In a unanimous decision contained in broad grounds of judgment and read out by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, the court said: “We are not satisfied that any of the findings of the courts below are perverse so as to warrant appellate intervention from this court.”
Tengku Maimun was referring to the findings made by the High Court when convicting Najib on July 28, 2020 and the Court of Appeal when affirming his conviction and sentence on Dec 8 last year.
Addressing the merits of the case, the chief justice said that the five-member apex court panel had examined all 94 grounds of appeal set out in Najib’s petition of appeal “in great detail”, noting that they disclosed “only two main complaints”.
They were, first, that the Court of Appeal had erred by finding that a prima facie case on all seven charges had been made out, and secondly, that the defence had raised a reasonable doubt on each of those charges.