80% of documents in Najib, Irwan case given to defence team

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here was yesterday told that nearly 224 documents or 80 per cent of documents relating to the case of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and former Treasury Secretary-General Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah, jointly charged with six counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT), involving government funds totalling RM6,636,065,000 have been handed over to the defence team.

Former Federal Court Judge Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram who is leading the prosecution team in the case informed the court when the case came up for mention before Judge Azman Ahmad.

Sri Ram said the prosecution would hand over the documents which would be used for the trial as soon as possible.

He also informed that the defence had filed an application to transfer the case to the High Court and the case management has been fixed on Nov 30, at 9am before deputy registrar Nurliana Ismail.

Judge Azman fixed Dec 7 for mention of the case. Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah represented Najib while Datuk K. Kumaraendran and Datuk Geethan Ram Vincent acted on behalf of Mohd Irwan Serigar.

On Oct 25, Najib, 65, and Mohd Irwan Serigar, 61, pleaded not guilty to six counts of CBT.

On the first count, Najib and Mohd Irwan Serigar were jointly charged with, in their capacity as Finance Minister and Treasury Secretary-General respectively, and who were entrusted with the dominion of RM1.2 billion belonging to the Malaysian government, committed CBT of the fund.

For the second charge, Najib and Mohd Irwan Serigar were jointly charged, while holding the same post, committed CBT of RM655 million belonging to the Malaysian government which were entrusted to them.