00:00 The KL High Court has set 30 days in June and July next year to hear the criminal breach
00:08 of trust, or CBT, case involving Datuk Street Najib Razak and former Treasury Secretary
00:14 General, Datuk Street Mahmoud Irwan Seriga Abdullah.
00:18 Judge Mahmoud Jamil Hussain fixed the dates following a request by Deputy Public Prosecutor
00:23 Mahmoud Saifuddin Hashim Moussaimi.
00:26 Today's proceeding was fixed for the prosecution to inform the court of the status of the representation
00:32 submitted by Najib and Mahmoud Irwan for the six charges against them to be dropped.
00:38 However, the court was not informed of the matter during the proceeding.
00:44 Mahmoud Shafi raised the issue of the alleged leak of a 12-page internal memo that was purportedly
00:50 sent by the lead prosecutor in the case, Datuk Jamil Aripin, to Tan Sri Tommy Thomas, who
00:55 was the Attorney General at the time.
00:59 However, Mahmoud Irwan's lawyer, Datuk K. Kumar Rendran, told his fellow lawyer that
01:04 the court is not a proper forum for the alleged leaked memo.
01:08 When met by reporters after proceedings, Mahmoud Shafi said he would write to the Attorney
01:12 General's chambers to remind them of the representations filed by Najib.
01:18 He also indicated calling Thomas to testify to support his defence that the case was a
01:23 blatant abuse of process.
01:26 On October 24, 2018, Najib and Mahmoud Irwan pleaded not guilty to six charges of CBT amounting
01:33 to RM6.6 billion in government funds involving payments to the International Petroleum Investment
01:39 Company.
01:40 The court ruled that the alleged leak of the internal memo was not a proper forum for the alleged leak of the internal memo.
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