KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The High Court here Friday (Aug 9) allowed the prosecution’s application for the corruption cases involving businessman Datuk Tan Eng Boon and former Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor to be tried jointly.
In his judgment, Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali said Section 170 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) empowers the court to jointly try more than one accused if the charges are related to offences that are committed in the same transaction.
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