Najib and lawyers shocked by double rejection


PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his lawyers were left shocked and bitterly disappointed after the Federal Court rejected their bid to adduce new evidence and also to postpone the hearing of the former prime minister’s appeal.

Najib said he believed the additional evidence would clearly indicate that trial judge Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali – now a Court of Appeal judge – was aware of the 1MDB and SRC transactions.

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