00:01The Federal Court has fixed June 30 to deliver its decision on the prosecution's appeal
00:07against the acquittal of Mu'ar M.P. Syed Sadiq Syed Abdul Rahman in his graft case linked to Bersatu's
00:15Armada funds.
00:16A three-judge panel chaired by Court of Appeal President Justice Abu Bakar Jais is presiding over the final appeal
00:24in the case.
00:25The other judges on the panel are Federal Court Judges Justices Che Maud Ruzima Razali and Colin Lawrence Sequeira.
00:33On June 25 last year, the Court of Appeal acquitted and discharged Syed Sadiq after allowing his appeal to set
00:41aside his conviction and sentence of seven years imprisonment,
00:46two strokes of the cane and a 10 million ringgit fine, originally handed down by the High Court on November
00:529, 2023.
00:53Syed Sadiq was accused of abetting former Armada Assistant Treasurer Rafiq Hakim Razali in the criminal breach of trust of
01:03one million ringgit belonging to Armada on March 6, 2020.
01:07He also faced a separate charge of misappropriating 120,000 ringgit belonging to Armada Bumi Bersatu Enterprise,
01:17and was further charged with two counts of money laundering via transactions of 50,000 ringgit each from his Maybank
01:25Islamic Berhad account into his Amanah Saham Bumi Putera account.
01:29Thank you very much.
01:38You
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