KUALA LUMPUR: Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal against the High Court's decision that convicted and sentenced her to a 10-year imprisonment and RM970mil fine in default of 30 years jail in the solar hybrid case.
The notice of appeal was filed via email through law firm Messrs Akberdin & Co on Friday (Sept 2).
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According to the notice of appeal, Rosmah said she was unsatisfied with the entire decision by High Court judge Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan that was delivered on Thursday (Sept 1).
Rosmah is also appealing against Justice Mohamed Zaini's dismissal of her application to recuse him from presiding over her case.
She had filed the notice of motion to recuse Justice Mohamed Zaini on Aug 30 over allegations of a "leaked judgment" and the application was denied on the same day the decision in her corruption trial was delivered.
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On Thursday (Sept 1), Justice Mohamed Zaini had convicted Rosmah of three charges under Section 16(a)(A) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009.
She was found guilty of one charge of soliciting RM187.5mil and two charges of accepting bribes - RM1.5mil and RM5mil - from former managing director of Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd, Saidi Abang Samsudin.
The bribe was received through her former aide Datuk Rizal Mansor as a reward to help Jepak Holdings obtain the Integrated Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Hybrid System Project as well as genset/diesel maintenance and operations for 369 schools worth RM1.25bil through direct negotiation from the Education Ministry.
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