Court denies Muda’s bid to refer MACC probe on Nazlan to apex court

 

Muda filed a lawsuit in April 2023 in a bid to declare as unlawful and unconstitutional MACC’s findings that Justice Nazlan Ghazali might have breached judicial ethics and acted in conflict of interest when presiding over Najib Razak’s SRC International trial in the High Court.

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court today rejected Muda’s application to refer constitutional issues arising from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) investigation into Justice Nazlan Ghazali to the Federal Court for determination.

Muda wanted the apex court to determine whether MACC has the authority and jurisdiction to investigate a serving superior court judge for breaching the Judges’ Code of Ethics 2009 and presiding over a case despite a conflict of interest.

The youth-based party filed the lawsuit in April 2023 in a bid to declare as unlawful and unconstitutional the agency’s findings that Nazlan might have breached judicial ethics and acted in conflict of interest when presiding over Najib Razak’s SRC International trial in the High Court.

Justice Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid said the application to refer such constitutional issues had no merit.

He added that the Federal Court, in Najib’s final SRC International appeal, had dealt with the conflict of interest issue.

Kamal then set Feb 6 for case management.

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