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COMMENT | Was AGC incompetent over Najib's, Zahid's DNAA?
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A Crown of Shadows, A Throne of Lies,The faces shift, yet the system stays the same,New hands on the reins, a different name,But the old chains bind, the old sorrow cries.

The whispers of change, a hollow refrain,A dance of power, a hollow game,The masses watch, hope fades like rain,As the privileged feast, still untamed.

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COMMENT | Is the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) so incompetent that they have let two Umno leaders off serious charges through a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA)? Or is something else at play here as events suggest?

On Nov 27, a judge gave a DNAA to former prime minister Najib Razak in a RM6.6 billion CBT case after a clear botch-up by the prosecution which failed to deliver documents to the defence teams for a trial which began in 2008, six years ago. Why?

On Sept 4 last year, then deputy public prosecutor and present Attorney-General Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar inexplicably asked for a DNAA for Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in a case involving millions against Yayasan Akalbudi even though the judge said a prima facie case had already been established. Why?

In a complicated case, Najib and the secretary-general of the Treasury at the time, Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah, were charged with criminal breach of trust (CBT) involving RM6.6 billion in alleged payments to the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), owned by the Abu Dhabi government.

But the court proceedings were delayed by the prosecution for, among other things, not passing required declassified documents over to the defence, leading the judge to declare a DNAA on application by the defence.

While Najib was facing several charges in different courts...


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