Rosmah verdict: Respect court's unburdened, unafraid ruling, says daughter Azrene

Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor leaving the Kuala Lumpur High Court. Rosmah Mansor was sentenced to 10 years jail on each of the three corruption charges. —AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PETALING JAYA: The High Court decision against Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor (pic) should be respected as it was made "unencumbered and unafraid", says her estranged daughter Datin Azrene Soraya Abdul Aziz.

"As a child, I continue to keep (my parents) in my prayers and hope for the best even when I expect the worst," she added in an Instagram post on Friday (Sept 2) a day after Rosmah was sentenced to 10 years' jail and fined RM970mil at the end of her solar hybrid project graft trial.

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"It is what it is; we need to respect it. Let the matter be exhausted until Federal Court, if need be.

"We need to trust in the facts, and our judiciary’s ability to arrive at its judgment unencumbered and unafraid," wrote Azrene, Rosmah's daughter from her previous marriage to Abdul Aziz Nong Chik.

"In normal life, objectivity involves logic and subjectivity involves emotion and all the grey areas in between.

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"As a child, it is always easy to think only in the subjective. It is always difficult to be objective in our thoughts and actions, given the conditioning we have received since birth.

"Despite much subjective 'white noise' dictated by our society, culture and its application of our religion, I remain objective; right is right, wrong is wrong – especially when it comes to leaders (spouses included); even when they are family," she said.

“(This is) simply because they were placed there by the citizens via a general election to care for the interests of everyone in the country," she said, referring to her stepfather, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

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“When it comes to matters of national interest, one must fight, no matter how limited our capacity. In this, my resolve is firm and I will never deviate," she said.

On Thursday (Sept 1), Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan found Rosmah guilty on all three corruption charges involving a RM1.25bil hybrid solar project for 369 rural schools in Sarawak.