The daughter of jailed former premier Najib Abdul Razak, Nooryana Najwa, has called on the Attorney-General's Chambers to "do the right thing" and drop six corruption charges against her father and former Treasury secretary-general Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah.
This follows the AGC's statement that it is investigating the alleged leak of a 2019 document related to the charges under Section 409 of the Penal Code for breach of trust amounting to RM6.6 billion in government funds involving payments to International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC).
"The 12-page internal memo goes into great detail about why there was no case at all and that my father and Irwan did not commit any wrongdoing over the IPIC settlement.
"What was revealed in the leaked memo is indeed shocking," Nooryana (above) said in a Facebook post.
Among others, she noted the alleged document revealed how the AGC's own prosecution team had concluded that the six charges were "non-starters and do not even meet the minimum requirement or threshold to even be brought to court".
Grave abuse
Further, she said the alleged document also revealed the AGC had interviewed 138 witnesses, and not one of their statements was favourable to the prosecutor's case.
"I note that my father was charged for this case in October 2018 and that the case has never gone for a hearing ever since as the prosecutors have repeatedly asked the courts to delay the case.
"Since being charged, my father had sent in two letters of representation asking for the charges to be dropped; the first (letter) was rejected in 2021," she said.
"It is a grave abuse of the court system and a great injustice to my father, who had to bear the legal costs and the reputational damage over a period of five years," she added.
The alleged internal memo from the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) prosecution team was addressed to former attorney-general Tommy Thomas.
It was also copied to then head of prosecution Manoj Kurup.
Thomas had reportedly said he did not remember the purported memo, but Nooryana dismissed his remark as a great insult to the public's intelligence.
On Oct 25, 2018, Najib and Irwan were jointly charged under Section 409 of the Penal Code for breach of trust amounting to RM6.6 billion in government funds involving payments to IPIC.
The case was transferred to the High Court on Dec 7, 2018. - Mkini
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