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This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily on April 24, 2019

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has set May 2 to hear the application to transfer the corruption case of Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s RM1.5 million solar hybrid system project to another court where her former aide Datuk Rizal Mansor’s graft case is being heard, for a joint trial of the two related cases.

Rosmah is the wife of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. While the prosecution, on April 5 made an oral submission for the transfer of Rosmah’s case from High Court Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah’s court to High Court Judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan’s court, Rosmah’s lawyers had requested for a formal application.

Lawyers Datuk Jagjit Singh and Datuk Akberdin Abdul Kader also asked for some time as the defence had made a stay application on the previous transfer of the case from the Sessions Court to the High Court, as well as for them to file an application regarding the transfer between the two High Courts.

However, deputy public prosecutor Datuk Gopal Sri Ram said the stay on the decision to transfer the case from the Sessions Court to the High Court and the transfer of the case to another court for a joint trial are two separate matters, calling them delaying tactics.

 

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