In the High Court today, lawyer Shafee Abdullah undertook to submit the former prime minister’s representations by tomorrow, The Edge reported.
Shafee said the defence had not received a response from former AGs Idrus Harun and Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh to previous representations.
He told Justice K Muniandy that Dusuki should be given a “chance or opportunity” to consider Najib’s representations.
Shafee also claimed that the second SRC International case stemmed from the prosecution’s oversight, as it should have been included in the first.
He argued that proceeding with a second trial was in neither the interests of justice nor the legal system.
Shafee also said Najib was presently “occupied nearly every week” with his ongoing 1MDB trial, which is expected to continue until the end of the year.
“I also have ongoing cases pending in Seremban in the coming months; and we ask that the trial dates for this SRC International case, scheduled in April and May, be vacated,” he said.
Deputy public prosecutor Ashrof Adrin Kamarul undertook to bring the representations to Dusuki’s attention, adding that the prosecution had no objection to postponing the trial as requested by the defence.
Muniandy fixed the case for mention on May 6 and vacated the previously scheduled dates of April 21 to 25, and May 19 to 23, to give priority to the ongoing 1MDB case.
Najib submitted representations to the Attorney-General’s Chambers in July 2023, seeking to withdraw the three money laundering charges – the first set of charges brought against the former Pekan MP in February 2019.
They were followed by a separate case involving seven charges for abuse of power, money laundering, and criminal breach of trust involving RM42 million in SRC International funds, which began on April 3, 2019.
On July 28, 2020, the High Court convicted Najib on all seven charges in the latter case. His appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed on Dec 8, 2021 and the Federal Court on Aug 23, 2022.
Najib is currently serving a reduced six-year prison term after receiving a partial pardon in January last year.