The suit against the Securities Commission and the government challenged the validity of Malaysia’s insider trading law.
The suit was filed against the Securities Commission and the government.
According to a statement issued by the SC today, Justice Amarjeet Singh, who made the ruling, held that the originating summons filed by Ramesh was an abuse of the court process.
He awarded costs of RM5,000 each to the SC and the government.
On Sept 10 last year, Ramesh filed a civil suit seeking a declaration that Section 188(2)(a) of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 (CMSA) was contrary to Articles 5(1), 8(1) and (2), 10(1)(a) and 13 of the Federal Constitution and was, therefore, null, void, and of no effect immediately.
On Oct 8, the SC filed an application to strike out the civil suit on grounds that it was barred by res judicata, amounted to an abuse of process, and was a collateral attack upon Ramesh’s criminal conviction by the sessions court and his ongoing criminal appeal before the High Court.
Ramesh was charged in the sessions court on April 29, 2015, with three charges of insider trading under Section 188(2)(a) of the CMSA.
He was convicted following a full trial and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of RM3 million for each charge.
Upon an appeal to the High Court, his conviction and sentence on all three charges were set aside on grounds of judicial copying by the trial judge.
The Court of Appeal reinstated his conviction and sentence for the first charge upon the public prosecutor’s appeal and remitted the case to the High Court for it to be heard on its merits.
The appeal hearing on merits is pending before the High Court. - FMT
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