KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 — Former Umno member Datuk Lokman Noor Adam is guilty of contempt of court for threatening a prosecution witness in Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s trial involving over RM2 billion of 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s funds, the High Court decided today.
High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, who is also the judge presiding over the 1MDB trial, today reportedly decided that Lokman had committed the contempt of court over his actions linked to the prosecution’s eighth witness in the 1MDB trial. “I find the act of the respondent, accompanied with intent, to make the media statement and police report, amounted to a threat against PW8 and other potential witness in trial, giving rise to risk on the due administration of justice and amounted to contempt of court,” Sequerah was quoted as saying by news portal, referring to Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin as PW8 or the eighth prosecution witness.
Both deputy public prosecutor Mohamad Mustaffa P. Kunyalam and Lokman’s defence lawyer Wan Aizuddin Wan Mohammed confirmed toThe High Court’s decision today was after a
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