28 Apr 2021 / 14:13 H.
Bernama
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal was today told that Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak was not a director or shadow director in SRC International Sdn Bhd to be found guilty of misappropriating RM42 million of the company’s funds.
The former prime minister’s counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah stressed that trial Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali adopted the civil law and common law concept of shadow director from England to convict the appellant (Najib).
“My Lord, Section 402A of the Penal Code on definition of a director was ‘something similar to the shadow director’ but it was not the same as in England.