Bar Council clears Zaid and partners of misconduct


PETALING JAYA: Lawyer Datuk Zaid Ibrahim and his partners, Liew Teck Huat and M. Rueben, have been exonerated by the Bar Council disciplinary board of any breach of the Legal Profession Act (LPA) 1976 or any other wrongdoing as alleged by Malaysian Bar president Karen Cheah.

Zaid took to X on Sunday (Jan 21) and said they were cleared by the board, headed by Justice Tan Sri Rohana Yusuf, in relation to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's final appeal in the SRC International case last year.

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