Judiciary denounces claim of plot against Umno leaders as bid to subvert justice | Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, April 21 — The Workplace of the Chief Registrar of the Federal Court docket has denied allegations that the Chief Justice is conspiring to hasten the graft trials and convict Umno leaders Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Datuk Seri Najib Razak, calling the hearsay malicious and supposed to “subvert” justice.

The supply of the allegation was believed to be from a posting made by a Fb person by the identify of Shahrir Samad – Tok Uban. The chief registrar’s workplace mentioned it has lodged a police report towards the account proprietor, and denied claims that the CJ had met with sure politicians to debate the trials of the 2 Umno leaders.

“This workplace wish to stress that the events accountable for making and spreading the allegations had supposed to tarnish the picture and trigger public mistrust of the judiciary,” it mentioned in an announcement issued this night.

“Aside from that these allegations had been additionally meant to subvert the administration of justice within the trials of Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi which are nonetheless ongoing and but to be concluded,” it added.

It’s unclear if the account proprietor is straight linked to Umno supreme council member Tan Sri Shahri Samad, who can be on trial for corruption. He had been accused of committing energy abuse throughout his tenure as head of the Federal Land Improvement Company.

The implicated posting is believed to be the supply of a at the moment circulating hearsay a couple of plot by the lawyer basic, the CJ and Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to expedite Najib and Zahid’s trials and safe convictions, as a strategy to circumvent Umno’s return to energy.

Zahid has issued an announcement claiming the alleged plot as affirmation that the corruption and cash laundering prices towards him and Najib had been trumped up.

Earlier at the moment, Choose Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali — who heard and convicted Najib over the misappropriation of RM42 million of SRC Worldwide Sdn Bhd’s funds — additionally lodged a police report over false allegations made towards him.

The criticism was filed following an article by blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin on the weblog Malaysia Right this moment, with the article dated April 20 carrying the title “Choose Mohd Nazlan being investigated for unexplained RM1 million in his checking account”.

The judiciary mentioned the decide — who was previously a Excessive Court docket decide and was elevated to be a Court docket of Enchantment decide — had mentioned the article had malicious intent and claims that had no foundation.