The Court of Appeal has fixed two days in June next year to hear Rosmah Mansor’s appeal to quash her guilty verdict as well as a 10-year jail term and RM970 million fine in a corruption case linked to the RM1.25 billion solar hybrid energy project.
Deputy public prosecutor Poh Yih Tinn this morning said that the appeals court set the hearing date on June 22 and 23.
Poh told the media the hearing is also over the wife of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s appeal to recuse judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan.
On Sept 1, the Kuala Lumpur High Court judge dismissed Rosmah’s bid for him to withdraw from presiding over the case involving three graft charges linked to the project for 369 rural schools in Sarawak.
She claimed Zaini dismissed her application to recuse him from the case that she filed on grounds linked to the alleged leak of the court judgment in her case.
The trial judge then convicted Rosmah over one charge of soliciting RM187.5 million and two counts of receiving RM6.5 million in bribes from Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd’s former managing director Saidi Abang Samsuddin through her former special officer Rizal Mansor.
It was allegedly done as an inducement to help the company secure the Hybrid Photovoltaic Solar System Integrated Project and Maintenance and Operation of Genset/Diesel for rural Sarawak schools.
Apart from prison time, Zaini sentenced Rosmah to a record RM970 million fine, with an additional 30 years imprisonment if she fails to pay the fine.
However, he allowed the defence’s bid to stay the execution of the sentence, pending an appeal to the Court of Appeal. - Mkini
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