PETALING JAYA: A lawyer has urged the police to investigate claims that an audit report on 1MDB was tampered with, saying the alleged offence is beyond the jurisdiction of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) alone. SN Nair called on the police to open an investigation paper under Section 218 of the Penal Code which deals...
Senior lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is representing former prime minister Najib Razak in his criminal cases. PETALING JAYA: Members of the legal community have hit out at their colleague Muhammad Shafee Abdullah over his remarks against the prosecution in his defence of former prime minister Najib Razak, saying the lawyer breached the profession’s code of...
Forensics expert Dr Nurliza Abdullah has taken part in 6,000 post-mortems. KUALA LUMPUR: A pathologist testifying in the inquest into Ivana Smit’s death last year told the Coroner’s Court here today that the conclusions reached in the Dutch model’s post-mortem were drawn from police evidence and similar cases of victims falling from a height. Forensic...
Alex Johnson and his wife Luna Almaz. KUALA LUMPUR: The lawyer representing Ivana Smit’s family today sought court intervention with regards to an article published over the weekend claiming the Dutch model had fallen to her death last year out of her own “youthful recklessness”. SN Nair, who is holding a watching brief at the...
Forensics medicine specialist Dr Nurliza Abdullah. KUALA LUMPUR: The inquest into the death of Dutch model Ivana Smit turned tense at the Coroner’s Court here today after a witness disagreed with the family’s counsel that standard operating procedures (SOP) were not followed before her autopsy. The exchange took place between forensics medicine specialist Dr Nurliza...
Dang Wangi police sergeant Haliza Hamdan. KUALA LUMPUR: A witness who testified in the inquest into Dutch model Ivana Smit’s death last year told the Coroner’s Court here today that police should have classified the case as a homicide instead of opening a sudden death report (SDR). Dang Wangi police sergeant Haliza Hamdan, the initial...
A+ A– Today marks the 20th anniversary of Anwar Ibrahim’s arrest after he was sacked as deputy prime minister on September 2, 1998. His dismissal, arrest and incarceration sparked the Reformasi movement which spawned a generation of activists, many of whom today have become elected representatives in the new Pakatan Harapan government are civil society...
Lawyer SN Nair. KUALA LUMPUR: A senior criminal lawyer has taken pathologists to task over their defensive behaviour, especially in police investigations and inquests into controversial deaths. SN Nair, a former counsel to PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim, said for the most part, pathologists appeared constantly on the defence especially since the Teoh Beng Hock case...
KUALA LUMPUR: A witness testifying in the inquest into Ivana Smit’s death last year told the Coroner’s Court today that she was “clueless” as to what she was supposed to do with some of the Dutch model’s clothes handed to her for DNA testing. Dang Wangi police sergeant Haliza Hamdan, the initial investigating officer (IO)...
Police sergeant Haliza Hamdan. KUALA LUMPUR: A witness testifying in the inquest into Ivana Smit’s death last year was branded a “liar” during today’s proceedings in the Coroner’s Court here after a document she cited as proof for one of her claims “went missing”. Dang Wangi police sergeant Haliza Hamdan, the 20th witness to take...