Date For Ku Nan S Bid For Passport Return To Be Fixed On April 16

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The High Court in Kuala Lumpur will set the date for the hearing of Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor's application to have his passport returned permanently to him on April 16
This came after deputy registrar Mahyudin Mohmad Som postponed today's case for the mention of the application, following a request made by the lawyer for the former federal territories minister, Tan Hock Chuan
Deputy public prosecutor Mohd Firdaous Mohd Idris told reporters the defence had requested for an extension of time to file their affidavit in reply
"Today I came just to get the next date because they (the defence) asked for extension of time to file (their) affidavit in reply
"The next date (for the case to be mentioned) is April 16. We will set the dates (for Tengku Adnan's application hearing) then," Firdaous told reporters when met at the Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex this morning
He said Tan had filed a fresh application last month to have Tengku Adnan's passport returned permanently to him
This was after High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali had, on Feb 28, dismissedTengku Adnan's application to set aside an order for him to surrender his passport by increasing his bail amount
On Nov 15 last year, Sessions Court judge Azura Alwi ordered the former minister, better known as Ku Nan, to surrender his international and diplomatic passports as an additional condition to his RM1 million bail
The judge set the bail amount and condition after Adnan was slapped with two chargesof corruptly receiving gratifications from businesspersons Tan Eng Boon and Chai Kin Kong in 2013
Adnan also faces an alternative charge of receiving RM1 million from Tan. He claimed trial to the alternative charge as well - in which Tan Eng Boon is named as a director of Nucleus Properties
However, on Dec 12 last year, the Sessions Court allowed an application by the prosecution for a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for Adnan on the charge of receiving RM2 million from Chai
The prosecution then applied to file a separate charge against Adnan, saying that they found that the first and second charges were not related
Sessions judge Azman Ahmad, who allowed the prosecution's application, also reduced Adnan's bail by RM500,000 upon application by Adnan's defence counsel
The former minister was, later the same day, re-charged with the same transaction, before the court allowed Adnan bail of RM500,000 with one surety. - Mkini

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