KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 ― More than eight months after Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor was convicted by the High Court for corruption in connection with a solar hybrid project for rural schools in Sarawak, the former prime minister’s wife’s money laundering and tax evasion trial begins today.
However, it remains to be seen if her second criminal trial would proceed as planned as Rosmah has filed a representation bid to the Attorney General’s Chambers on May 2. If the trial does proceed pending the representation outcome, the prosecution is expected to address the court by reading out its opening statement.In this trial, Rosmah is facing 12 money laundering charges involving RM7,097,750, and five counts of failure to declare her income to the Inland Revenue Board between December 4, 2013 to June 8, 2017.
Apart from May 12, the court also set June 28 and 30; July 6, 7, 27, 28 and 31; August 1, 2, 11, 24 and 25; and September 7 and 8, 2023 as trial dates.