Pengakuan Pejabat Peguam Negara selepas 527 hari bahawa wujudnya Adendum Diraja – yang membenarkan bekas Perdana Menteri Najib Razak menjalani baki hukuman penjaranya di bawah tahanan rumah – telah mencetuskan kemarahan ramai. Peguam-peguam kanan memberi amaran bahawa isu ini boleh menjadi liabiliti besar kepada kerajaan Madani, menimbulkan persepsi bahawa mereka cuba menyembunyikan sesuatu.
The Attorney General’s belated admission after 527 days that a Royal Addendum exists – decreeing former Prime Minister Najib Razak should serve his sentence under house arrest – has sparked outrage, with senior lawyers warning that this debacle is a ticking time bomb for the Madani government, creating the impression it has something to hide.
Defence lawyers for Datuk Seri Najib Razak criticised the prosecution’s hasty investigation in the 1MDB trial, arguing that unreliable witnesses and a misunderstanding of...
Former 1MDB lawyer Jasmine Loo was first charged in absentia in December 2018 when she was accused of laundering US$5 million and US$999,975, being proceeds of unlawful activity received into the account of River Dee International SA (BVI) in Falcon Private Bank AG in Zurich, but to date the charges have yet to be pursued, giving rise to speculations about a possible deal with the authorities