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PUTRAJAYA: Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has filed an application to recuse Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat from presiding over his final ...

This is Najib’s final bid to overturn the guilty conviction. Najib later filed a petition of appeal to the Federal Court on Apr 25 this year. But the bench dismissed his request. Mr Teh was joined by Mr Muhammad Shafee Abdullah in the defence’s application. Citing a social media post by the Chief Judge’s husband in 2018, Mr Teh said it is clear that he had negative sentiments towards Najib’s leadership. Advertisement

Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak submitted an application on Monday night (Aug 22) to have Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat recused from ...

He was also sentenced to 10 years in jail for each of the CBT and money laundering charges. For the power abuse offence, he was sentenced to 12 years in jail and fined RM210 million. Najib is out on a RM2 million bail with two sureties pending the appeal. He was also found guilty on three counts each of criminal breach of trust (CBT) and money laundering involving RM42 million of SRC funds. This resulted in an exchange between Tengku Maimun and Hisyam. According to Najib's affidavit in support, he is seeking to recuse Tengku Maimun from being on the bench and also presiding over the appeal based on the grounds that Zamani has been critical of the former premier.

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak on Tuesday (Aug 23) filed an application to recuse Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat from ...

But Justice Tengku Maimun said there would be “no need” for anyone to be present at court on Wednesday if the hearing is concluded on Tuesday. Should Najib succeed in his application, the entire appeal hearing up to now will be considered void. Shafee was in court for barely 30 minutes before he left for another engagement. Najib arrived at the country's top court on Tuesday morning for the final leg of his appeal to set aside his corruption conviction and 12-year jail sentence over a case linked to the 1MDB financial scandal. Najib's defence team is now seeking to delay the appeal hearing until the recusal application has been heard and disposed of by the court. The application is based on Facebook posts made by the judge’s husband Zamani Ibrahim in May 2018, in which he is said to have demonstrated negative views of Najib’s leadership and concluded that Najib had siphoned funds from 1MDB into his personal bank account.

The lawyers for Malaysia's former premier Najib Razak filed a petition calling for a chief justice to recuse herself from overseeing his appeal on a ...

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 23 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak has made an eleventh-hour bid to recuse Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat from presiding over his final ...

"Being the husband of the chairperson that is adjudicating my appeal it is likely that he would have influenced the thinking of the mind of the chairperson as to my alleged culpability. "I further state that considering the nature of their spousal relationship, it is likely that the mind of the learned chairperson would have been unconsciously influenced by the sentiments against me held by her ladyship’s husband," Najib wrote. According to Najib, he verily believed the aforementioned individual is the chief justice's husband, who is also the chairman of the judicial panel hearing his final appeal of the SRC case.