KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court will decide on Monday whether it will quash or amend any of the charges in Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s corruption trial. Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali set the decision for 9am after hearing submissions by both parties. Najib’s lawyers applied to have his charges either quashed or amended, citing procedural errors in how the prosecution had designed the accusations. Datuk Kamarul Hisham Kamaruddin argued that charges of corruption could not be tried concurrently with criminal breach of trust (CBT). Fellow defence lawyer, former Solicitor-General II Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden, submitted that the charges against his client for CBT lacked clarity and specificity.

Source: The Star April 26, 2019 21:22 UTC