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KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 8): Former Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) chairman Tan Sri Shahrir Samad has today withdrawn his application to recuse High Court judge Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali from hearing the application he put in to transfer his money laundering case from the Sessions Court to the High Court.
This follows news that Justice Nazlan will be transferring from the High Court s criminal division to the High Court s civil division, effective this March 1.
Shahrir s counsel Datuk Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin told
theedgemarkets.com that they are withdrawing the recusal application due to this transfer order, and asked for a case management date to be fixed for his client s application to transfer the case from the Sessions Court to the High Court.