Aug 28 hearing on AGC’s application over Dr M’s suit, RCI

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has fixed Aug 28 to hear an application by the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) to strike out a suit filed by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad against a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) over foreign exchange losses in the 1990s.

In his suit filed last Dec 19, Dr Mahathir, who is now the Prime Minister, said the RCI’s report was illegal, incomplete and defective as it lacked proceeding notes, and written and oral submissions through transcription or video recording.

Dr Mahathir sought to declare that any reports by any RCIs established under the Commission of Inquiry Act 1950 are only legal and in order if they have all the written statements by witnesses who testified in the proceeding, the proceeding notes, submissions and findings.

The suit named Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, Datuk Kamaludin Md Said, Datuk Seri Tajuddin Atan, Tan Sri Saw Choo Boon, S.A.K. Pushpanathan, RCI secretary Datuk Dr Yusof Ismail, then Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Cabinet ministers and the Government as defendants.

Yesterday, after High Court (Appellate and Special Powers) judge Justice Azizah Nawawi fixed the hearing date, Dr Mahathir’s lawyer Mohd Irzan Iswatt said he had yet to receive any instruction from the premier on whether to continue or withdraw the suit.