Lawyer Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla said the legal team submitted 495 pages of Mahathir’s legal documents to the RCI after proceedings came to an end in August.
“We expected our client’s documents to be included as part of the RCI’s finding but that was not so.
“All documents should have been annexed for those perusing the report to also make their own conclusions,” he added.
He said among the documents given to the RCI were submissions and case laws but instead the RCI saw it fit to only display a condensed version of their arguments.
Haniff said he would be writing to the RCI secretariat on Monday and demand that they stop circulating or publishing the current report until they had inserted all the 495 pages supplied to them earlier.
“We will give them until next Friday for a response, failing which we will file a judicial review to prohibit a half-baked publication from being shoved down the throats of the palace, Parliament and the public unfairly and dishonestly in carrying out the crooked political agenda of Najib Razak,” he said.
In an immediate response yesterday, the lawyer said the findings did not even meet the level of a “pre-kindergarten product” as the proceedings were conducted with the use of “the laws of the jungle” and the “rules of a circus”.
Haniff said he was completely astounded that there were references made in the report to purported criminal breach of trust, when in fact the nature of the materials referred to by the RCI fell ridiculously short and was insufficient to reach such conclusions.
He said the nature of the materials referred to in the RCI proceedings were based on hearsay, conjectures, presumptions and assumptions which did not meet any legally acceptable level of credibility.
The five-man RCI, chaired by Mohd Sidek Hassan, concluded there were elements of hidden facts and information relating to forex losses suffered by BNM and misleading statements given to the cabinet, Parliament and the public.
The report said BNM suffered a total loss of RM31.5 billion between 1992 and 1994.
The commission proposed that the police open investigations into possible criminal breach of trust or cheating by various parties, including Mahathir and then finance minister (1991-1998) Anwar Ibrahim.
Special mention was made to ex-Bank Negara adviser Nor Mohamed Yakcop, whom the report named as “principally liable for criminal breach of trust” while Daim Zainuddin, another former finance minister (1984-1991), was said to have aided and abetted Nor Mohamed.