CEO accountability is under scrutiny as former 1MDB chief executive Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi returns to the witness stand, with defence lawyers questioning where responsibility lies for decisions that led to the fund’s multibillion-ringgit losses.
During the 1MDB Civil Trial, Liquidator Angela Barkhouse told the High Court that her team traced allegedly misappropriated 1MDB funds through a complex network of 29 offshore entities, while acknowledging that her findings were based on a retrospective reconciliation and that she could not confirm the final total amount recovered.
The new labour package would incorporate direct migrant labour recruitment, and formally recognise the stateless in Sabah, as providing direct 'migrant' workers!
Delays in issuing written grounds of judgment are not uncommon in complex cases. But when such delays extend well beyond established timelines, do they begin to affect an accused person’s ability to exercise a meaningful right of appeal?
In Malaysia, the phrases "kangaroo court" and "hanging judge" have taken on a chilling significance in the wake of controversial legal proceedings involving former Prime Minister Najib Razak.