PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal on Monday (March 16) fixed three days from July 1 to hear Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor's appeal to set aside her conviction and sentence in the RM1.25bil solar hybrid project corruption case.
Lawyer Datuk Akberdin Abdul Kader, representing the wife of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, said judge Datuk Nadzarin Wok Nordin fixed the dates, from July 1 to 3, to hear the appeal during the case management.
Akberdin said his client has also filed an application to review the Federal Court's recent dismissal of her bid to recuse High Court judge Datuk Mohamed Zaini Mazlan (who is now a Court of Appeal judge), who convicted her in the RM1.25bil Sarawak solar hybrid project corruption case.
On March 3, the Federal Court dismissed Rosmah's final appeal seeking the recusal of judge Mohamed Zaini, ruling that there was no appealable error warranting the court's intervention.
On Sept 1, 2022, judge Mohamed Zaini sentenced Rosmah to 10 years in jail and fined her RM970mil after finding her guilty of corruption in connection with the solar hybrid project corruption case.
The court also ruled that Rosmah should serve an additional 10 years in prison if she failed to pay the fine. However, the court granted her request to suspend the jail sentence and fine pending her appeal to the Court of Appeal.
Zaini convicted Rosmah of soliciting RM187.5mil from former Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin through her former aide, Rizal Mansor, as an inducement to help the company secure the solar project.
She was also convicted of receiving bribes amounting to RM5mil from Saidi, through Rizal, at Seri Perdana in Putrajaya on Dec 20, 2016, and another charge of receiving RM1.5mil from Saidi at Jalan Langgak Duta on Sept 7, 2017. - Bernama
