PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal today set aside PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli’s 18-month jail sentence for exposing 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s (1MDB) audit report last year. In November last year, the sessions court sentenced Rafizi to a total of 36 months in jail over two charges of possessing and leaking the classified 1MDB audit report. He was charged with possessing Page 98 of the report, without approval, at the Parliament’s lobby at Jalan Parliament at 3pm on March 24, last year. Rafizi was also accused of exposing, without approval, the contents of the page at a press conference on March 28. Deputy public prosecutor Awang Armada Jaya Awang Mahmud prosecuted, while Rafizi was represented by counsel Ahmad Nizam Hamid.

Source: New Strait Times June 01, 2018 03:22 UTC