Rosmah Mansor’s trial dates in May and July over 17 money laundering charges involving RM7.09 million has been vacated.
Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan today postponed the hearing dates to make way for the accused’s ongoing corruption trial before him concerning the RM1.25 billion solar hybrid project involving 269 schools in Sarawak.
Zaini was referring to the dates previously fixed on May 12 to 14, July 6 to 9, July 13 to 16, and July 20 to 24, to hear the 17 money laundering charges against Rosmah, the wife of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.
The judge informed deputy public prosecutor Poh Yih Tian and defence counsel Geethan Ram Vincent during the mention of the matter in open-court this morning.
Rosmah’s graft trial linked to the solar hybrid project before Zaini could not proceed during the movement control order (MCO) period which was imposed nationwide from March 18.
Her corruption trial linked to the solar hybrid project initially set to resume on 29 and 30 April, was also vacated due to the MCO.
It was reported that her solar hybrid project graft trial has been fixed to resume on June 9 to 11, July 6 to 9, July 13 to 16 and July 20 to 23.
Courts only began operating in stages beginning May 13 last week following the implementation of the conditional MCO.
“Due to the MCO, all of our (trial) dates became topsy turvy. Priority is on the (Rosmah’s) solar (graft) case that was supposed to conclude already (earlier) but could not be finished due to the MCO.
“The solar case is fixed for case management on Wednesday to fix further trial dates.
“It does not make sense to do that case (Rosmah’s solar graft case) partly and do your case (Rosmah’s 17 money laundering case) partly.
“It is better to conclude that case (Rosmah’s solar graft case) first,” Zaini informed the parties today.
Poh and defence counsel Geethan Ram Vincent informed the court that both parties have no objection to the vacating of the trial dates for the 17 money laundering charges.
Zaini then fixed July 30 for case management for Rosmah’s case involving the 17 money laundering counts.
Rosmah was not present at court this morning as her attendance was exempted from today’s mention.
On Oct 4, 2018, at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, Rosmah was charged with 12 counts of depositing RM7.1 million into her personal accounts from 2013 until 2017, and another five charges for not declaring the deposits in her income tax statements.
Later on Dec 6, 2018, the lower court recorded the transfer of her case to the Kuala Lumpur High Court. - Mkini
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