PUTRAJAYA: Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor will file a review of the Federal Court's dismissal of her appeal to recuse the trial judge in her graft case involving the RM1.25bil Sarawak solar hybrid project.
Her lawyer Datuk Akberdin Abdul Kader told reporters that the defence will file the application next week.
"We have received instructions from our client to exhaust all legal avenues in the application before the main appeal resumes," he said when met here on Wednesday (March 4).
On Tuesday (March 3), Rosmah failed in her final appeal to recuse Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan from presiding over her graft case and to obtain a retrial.
The Federal Court unanimously dismissed Rosmah's appeal on the grounds that there was no appealable error warranting the apex court's intervention.
Justice Mohamed Zaini had convicted Rosmah in her graft trial involving the RM1.25bil solar hybrid project in Sarawak.
The Federal Court also found that Justice Mohamed Zaini, now a Court of Appeal judge, did not violate the Judges’ Code of Ethics following controversy over a leaked draft judgment prepared by the Kuala Lumpur High Court’s research unit prior to his delivering the decision in Rosmah’s case on Sept 1, 2022.
Rosmah made the eleventh-hour application to recuse Justice Mohamed Zaini after the leak, citing allegations that the draft was prepared by a third party and circulated before its official delivery.
Her application was dismissed by the judge, who convicted and sentenced her on the same day.
She later appealed the dismissal at the Court of Appeal, which upheld the decision.
Rosmah was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment on each charge and fined RM970mil, in default 10 years’ imprisonment, in the solar hybrid case.
The Court of Appeal granted her a stay of execution pending the disposal of her appeal against the conviction and sentence.
