Ngo Lodges Report Against Judge Who Convicted Najib

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Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, then a High Court judge, had convicted and sentenced former prime minister Najib Razak on seven charges relating to funds belonging to SRC International on July 28, 2020.PUTRAJAYA: An NGO has lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) urging it to investigate Court of Appeal judge Nazlan Mohd Ghazali over his alleged links to 1MDB.
Persatuan Sahabat Ulul Amri Malaysia (PSUAM) president Syed Muhammad Imran Syed Abdul Aziz said former prime minister Najib Razak’s SRC International case should be reheard or dropped if there was a conflict of interest.
Nazlan, then a High Court judge, had convicted and sentenced Najib on seven charges relating to funds belonging to SRC International on July 28, 2020. An appeal against the conviction is pending before the Federal Court.
“If MACC finds that Nazlan was involved in the 1MDB case, we want the case to be reheard or dropped immediately,” Imran told reporters after lodging the report.

Yesterday, Najib’s lawyers said they would file an application for leave to adduce fresh evidence before the Federal Court to show that Nazlan, who was then in private practice, was involved in one of the loans given to 1MDB.
During cross-examination at Najib’s 1MDB trial, former 1MDB chief financial officer Azmi Tahir said minutes of a Maybank board meeting in 2012 were tendered as evidence.
It listed Nazlan as a participant at the meeting as he was the bank’s general counsel and company secretary at the time.
Najib’s lead counsel, Shafee Abdullah, said Nazlan held that post between 2005 and 2015, adding that he ought to have disclosed a significant conflict of interest and disqualified himself.
The Maybank board meeting had deliberated on a RM6.17 billion loan to partly finance 1MDB’s acquisition of Tanjong Energy. Shafee said SRC International was a subsidiary of 1MDB at that time. - FMT

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