KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 — Weeks after the High Court ordered for her money laundering and tax evasion trial to commence, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has now filed an application to strike out all of the charges on which she is currently on trial.Rosmah said the 17 charges against her were baseless, defective and premature since she argued the criminal court was not a suitable forum to determine whether some RM7.
"Under any circumstances, I reserve the substantive right to refer the said chargeable amount to the SCIT which has been denied to me in these charges," she said in her affidavit ahead of a case management on the trial fixed for hearing at the High Court today. The application was filed yesterday which her lawyer Geethan Ram Vincent had confirmed to Malay Mail.
Rosmah, who is the wife of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for each charge to be served concurrently which means she will only serve 10 years in jail.