- The Malaysian Bar will justify difficult the Federal Territories Pardons Board’s (FTPB) choice to halve Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s jail sentence and cut back the superb in his SRC International case conviction.
- It filed the go well with on April 26, asserting that the FTPB acted unconstitutionally in granting Najib a listening to earlier than he was due for one, successfully violating different eligible prisoners’ proper to equality beneath the Federal Constitution.
- In February, the FTPB introduced that Najib’s preliminary 12-year jail time period has been halved to six years and a discount of his RM210 million superb to RM50 million.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 — The High Court today is ready to hear the Malaysian Bar’s bid to challenge the Federal Territories Pardons Board’s choice to cut back Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s sentence from his SRC International conviction, alleging bias in the direction of the ex-prime minister.
High Court choose Datuk Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid might be presiding over the listening to scheduled at 11am.
Applications for judicial evaluation should acquire depart from the High Court so as to proceed.
The Malaysian Bar named Najib and the FTPB as respondents within the go well with.
In the appliance filed by solicitors Messrs Amir & Rajpal Ghai, the Malaysian Bar is searching for a declaration that the FTPB’s collective choice was illegal, unconstitutional and void.
It can be requesting an order of certiorari towards the board to quash the FTPB’s choice.
The Malaysian Bar, which represents 22,000 legal professionals practising in Peninsular Malaysia, additionally desires a everlasting injunction restraining Najib or his brokers from submitting any utility for pardon, reprieve or respite to the board till all felony prices towards him have been exhausted. — Picture by Choo Choy May
The Bar, which represents 22,000 legal professionals practising in Peninsular Malaysia, additionally desires a everlasting injunction restraining Najib or his brokers from submitting any utility for pardon, reprieve or respite to the board till all felony prices towards him have been exhausted.
At the Malaysian Bar’s 78th annual basic assembly (AGM) again in March, members of the legal skilled physique for Peninsular Malaysia in a near-unanimous vote adopted the decision for the Bar Council to file the court docket challenge.
The movement for the decision was proposed by former Malaysian Bar president Zainur Zakaria and seconded by former Malaysian Bar president Yeo Yang Poh.
Najib has been imprisoned since August 23, 2022, after the Federal Court upheld his conviction for felony breach of belief, energy abuse and cash laundering over the misappropriation of SRC International Sdn Bhd’s RM42 million.
Najib is serving his sentence at Kajang jail and his earliest launch is on August 23, 2028.
Under the Federal Constitution, the Agong chairs the conferences of the FTPB, which contains the lawyer basic, the Federal Territories minister, and a most of three different members appointed by the Agong.
