Zaid says no comment after being thrown under the bus
Zaid says no comment after being thrown under the bus
PUTRAJAYA: Senior lawyer Datuk Mohd Zaid Ibrahim has declined to comment when asked to respond to what had transpired at the Federal Court today.
Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah today lambasted Zaid’s firm for their alleged incompetency in handling Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s appeal in SRC International Bhd case at the Federal Court last year.
Shafee said Najib’s review of his conviction and sentence said Zaid’s law firm Messrs Zaid Ibrahim Suflan TH Liew & Partners (Zist) did not have what it takes to represent a case of such magnitude, which resulted Najib to be incarcerated in Kajang Prison.
Describing his relationship with Zist as acrimonious, Shafee said the law firm failed to tell Najib the truth by acting with “blind confidence” that the court would grant them an adjournment of the case.
He said this in his submissions in Najib’s application to review his conviction and sentence in the SRC International Bhd case.
Zaid when contacted, however, said it was not proper for him to respond to Shafee’s statement.
On July 26, last year, Najib replaced his long-time counsel (Shafee) with Zist to handle his final appeal at the Apex Court.
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Shafee had all this while led Najib’s defence team in the SRC International case right from the time the former Umno president was charged in 2020.
Shafee argued that Najib did not get a fair trial for the appeal due to the miscalculated strategy by his newly-appointed counsels at that time.
Najib, 70, was found guilty of abuse of power in relation to a RM4 billion loan given by Retirement Fund (Inc) (KWAP) to SRC between August 2011 and March 2012.
He was also convicted of criminal breach of trust and money laundering involving RM42 million of SRC funds between Dec 26, 2014, and Feb 10, 2015.
For this, Najib was sentenced to 12 years’ jail and fined RM210 million by the High Court, with the jail sentence and fine being upheld by the Court of Appeal on Dec 8, 2021, and further affirmed by the Federal Court on Aug 23 last year.
Zaid says no comment after being thrown under the bus
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