Nation
30 Mar 2021
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal was told that a judge who lacked experience in criminal cases had presided over the “case of the century” involving former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who was convicted of the misappropriation of RM42mil from SRC International Sdn Bhd.
This was submitted by Najib’s lead counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah before a three-man bench, chaired by Court of Appeal judge Justice Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil.
“At the last minute, they appointed a judge who had no experience in a criminal trial, ” Muhammad Shafee said on the first day of the hearing of the appeal by Najib against his conviction and sentence here yesterday.