THE Royal Malaysian Police Force (PDRM) has requested individuals to come forth and make police reports over an allegedly leaked “guilty verdict” in Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s RM1.25 bil corruption case.
News portal Sinar Harian also quoted Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Azmi Abu Kassim as saying that they had received no police reports on the matter so far.
“I request any party to step forth to make police reports so investigations can be carried out,” he said yesterday (Aug 26).
The Palace of Justice, meanwhile, has since lodged a police report over the matter, stating that the purported leak aimed at “affecting the integrity of the operation of the Federal Court” and the “administration of justice”.
The Federal Court’s registrar’s office did not confirm or deny whether the leaked verdict was authentic.
Next Thursday (Sept 1), the Kuala Lumpur High Court is expected to deliver its ruling as to whether to acquit or convict Rosmah of her three corruption charges involving a hybrid solar project for rural schools in Sarawak.
Raja Petra Kamarudin’s Malaysia Today blog had yesterday claimed that Rosmah would be found guilty in the case, and uploaded both a supposed three-page summary and the “full” written judgment.
However, even as it claimed it was the verdict, the portal said: “The written judgment was not written by the trial judge. It was written ON BEHALF of the trial judge by a person or persons unknown.
“The judge’s job is just to deliver the verdict next week.”
The news portal also noted that Rosmah will not “rush off” to prison if she is found guilty in the case as she can still appeal the verdict to the higher courts.
But it claimed that her fate was “already sealed, so to speak”, and “they” need only “hammer the nails into her coffin” during her appeal hearings, “like what happened to her husband”.
Last Tuesday (Aug 23), the Federal Court rejected former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s final appeal in his RM42 mil SRC International corruption case and upheld his seven charges of power abuse, criminal breach of trust and money laundering, RM210 mil fine and 12-year jail sentence. He went to the Kajang jail that day.
Soliciting and receiving bribes
Rosmah is facing one count of soliciting RM187.5 mil and two counts of receiving bribes totalling RM6.5 mil from Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin.
The bribes were allegedly received through her former aide Datuk Rizal Mansor as a reward for helping Jepak Holdings to secure the Hybrid Photovoltaic Solar System Integrated project as well as the maintenance and operation of diesel generator sets for 369 Sarawak rural schools worth RM1.25 bil from the Education Ministry through direct negotiation.
On Feb 18 last year, Rosmah was ordered to enter her defence on the three charges after the prosecution succeeded in proving a prima facie case against her.
Separately, the Kelantan Palace has denied claims that Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat and her husband Datuk Zamani Ibrahim have been “banned” by the Kelantan palace.
Comptroller of the Kelantan royal household Datuk Nik Mohd Shafriman Nik Hassan said the allegation, as made by a portal, was “baseless and untrue”.
“The Kelantan palace takes such slanderous statements seriously and urges all media practitioners to refer to the palace beforehand regarding the veracity of any news before publishing, to avoid causing public confusion,” he said in a statement yesterday, Bernama reported.
Nik Mohd Shafriman added that the Kelantan palace will consider taking legal action against the portal if such slander continues.
As part of his new evidence bid and final appeal in his SRC International case, Najib had gone after Tengku Maimun’s alleged “impartiality” following a viral 14th General Elections (GE14) Facebook post attributed to her husband that was seen as “anti-Najib”. – Aug 27, 2022
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