PKR calls for disciplinary action against Shafee

The Bar Council has been urged to take disciplinary action against lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, if it is true that he had not gone abroad to pursue legal matters on behalf of the government, and the prime minister and his wife.

PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution (left) claimed that this is because he has information that Shafee had obtained postponement of at least one of his cases because of the letter.

"If the letter has led to a postponement of the case, then I would say, yes, the letter is 99.9999 percent genuine," he told reporters at party headquarters in Tropicana today.

He said this was for the ‘Seruan Gemilang v the Pahang government’ case, where the Seruan Gemilang lawyer was given a copy of Shafee's letter as a reason for the postponement.
    
"The prime minister must answer: did the government appoint Shafee and, if it did, shouldn't this be the attorney-general's job? Or was (Shafee) acting for the PM and his wife?...,” Saifuddin said.

"If he was not acting as their lawyer, then we urge the PM to report him to the Bar Council...or the Bar Council should take disciplinary action.”

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