KUALA LUMPUR — Weeks after the Malaysian High Court ordered for her money laundering and tax evasion trial to commence, Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak has now filed an application to drop all of the charges which she is currently on trial for.
Weeks after the Malaysian High Court ordered for her money laundering and tax evasion trial to commence, Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak has now filed an application to drop all of the charges which she is currently on trial for.Rosmah said the 17 charges against her were baseless, defective and premature, arguing that 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 on Thursday . She was sentenced to 10 years in jail for each charge to be served concurrently, which means she will only serve 10 years in jail.
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