Judge who convicted Najib elevated to appeals court
Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali was presented the instrument of appointment at Istana Negara today.
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High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali who convicted former prime minister Najib Razak of corruption in the SRC International case was today promoted to the Court of Appeal.
Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah presented the instrument of appointment at a ceremony at Istana Negara.
Nazlan was a judicial commissioner from April 10, 2015 until he was appointed as a High Court judge on Jan 30, 2017.
In July 2020, Nazlan sentenced Najib to 12 years’ jail and fined him RM210 million after convicting him of seven charges related to the misappropriation of funds from SRC International.
In December of that year, meanwhile, Nazlan gave former federal territories minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for a charge of accepting a RM1 million bribe in 2013, after the prosecution inform the court of new details on the case.
He was transferred back to the civil court in March last year.
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