00:00Datuk Seri Najib Razak has filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal against his conviction
00:07and sentence in the RM2.28 billion, one Malaysia Development Berhad case.
00:14His lawyer, Mohamed Farhan Mohamed Shafi confirmed that the notice was filed Monday night.
00:19On December 26, the Kuala Lumpur High Court found Najib guilty of four power abuse charges
00:25and 21 money laundering charges involving RM2.28 billion linked to one MDB funds.
00:33The former Prime Minister was sentenced to 15 years in jail and fined a total of RM11.4
00:38billion, with a default sentence of 40 years jail for the power abuse charges.
00:45While no fine was imposed for the money laundering charges, the Court ordered him to pay a recoverable
00:50sum of RM2.081 billion, in default of 270 months jail, for those charges.
00:57Najib was charged with four counts of using his position to obtain RM2.28 billion in gratification
01:03from one MDB funds and 21 counts of money laundering involving the same amount.
01:09Recently, on December 24, Najib also filed an appeal against the High Court's dismissal
01:15of his judicial review in the addendum case, which he claimed would have allowed him to
01:20serve his sentence under house arrest.
01:23The Court rejected the judicial review, ruling it invalid and unenforceable as it was issued
01:28outside the Constitutional Framework.
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