KUALA LUMPUR: Datin Seri Pamela Ling Yueh has been granted permission by the High Court to contest her prior arrest by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the travel ban imposed by the Immigration Department.
Justice Amarjeet Singh granted Pamela’s application for leave to initiate a judicial review after considering submissions from the parties involved in his chambers yesterday.
The judge found that there were triable issues in the application.
Senior federal counsel Mohd Faisal Md Noor did not object to the application.
Meanwhile, Pamela’s lawyer Surendra Ananth told The Star that the court has also fixed June 3 for case management.
She filed the leave application on April 7, just two days before Pamela’s highly-publicised disappearance.
On April 9, the Sarawak-born woman was reported missing while on her way to the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya after getting in an e-hailing vehicle.
A police report on her disappearance was lodged at 3.02pm on the same day.
The MACC had earlier obtained an arrest warrant for Pamela on Dec 2 last year from a Putrajaya Magistrate’s Court after she failed to comply with the order to attend an interview for the purpose of completing a money laundering investigation.
On Jan 8, she was lawfully apprehended and brought back to Malaysia through a joint operation with the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) of Singapore.
Following her arrest, she was then brought to the Putrajaya Magistrate’s Court, where she was remanded from Jan 9 to 11 before being granted bail.
She was scheduled to be at the MACC headquarters on April 9.
