Sentul district police chief Beh Eng Lai said the statements were taken from court officers and judge Zaini Mazlan, who found Rosmah guilty on all three counts yesterday in connection with the Sarawak schools’ solar energy project.

“The matter is still under investigation,” Beh told reporters, adding that police were in the process of identifying those behind the purported leak.

Blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin shared the document on his website on Aug 29 and alleged that “the guilty verdict had already been written”.

The defence applied to recuse Zaini from presiding over Rosmah’s case, saying the draft judgment was not prepared by him, but by “third parties”. As a result, it said, Rosmah had lost confidence in the judge deciding her case.

Deputy public prosecutor Poh Yih Tinn, in his counter affidavit to Rosmah’s application, said the purported judgment was actually an opinion write-up by the research unit of the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

Zaini, who turned down the recusal bid, later stressed that he personally wrote all his judgments.

He sentenced the former prime minister’s wife to 10 years’ jail and fined her RM970 million.

Rosmah was allowed a stay of execution pending her appeal to the Court of Appeal.

Separately, police will also record a statement from PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli next week over allegations he made against special functions minister Latiff Ahmad on the alleged involvement of his “wife” in the littoral combat ships project.

Rafizi alleged that Latiff’s “wife”, whom he named as Zainab Salleh, was linked to two companies involved in the embezzlement of funds in the project.

Latiff has denied that he has a wife by that name. An aide lodged a police report against Rafizi.