NAJIB Razak today filed three notices of appeal to set aside his conviction, as well as the 12-year jail sentence and RM210 million fine after being found guilty of receiving RM42 million in SRC International funds on Tuesday.

A member of the defence team confirmed with The Malaysian Insight that the notices were filed at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today.

Najib was convicted of three counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT), three counts of money-laundering and a single charge of abuse of power in connection with SRC International, which was once a 1Malaysia Development Bhd subsidiary.

The Pekan MP was sentenced to 10 years’ jail on each of the three cases of CBT and each of the three cases of money-laundering and 12 years’ jail and fined RM210 million, in default five years jail, in the case of abuse of position.

However, Najib will only serve 12 years in jail as high court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali ordered all the jail sentences to run concurrently.

Nazlan meted out the sentences at 6.30pm on Tuesday, after taking into consideration the mitigating factors from the defence, prosecution and the accused, as well as public interest.

“I have also taken into account all the mitigating factors, including the contribution of the accused for the country,” he said.

The court, however, granted Najib’s application for a stay of execution of the sentence and fine, pending appeal to the Court of Appeal, and raised the bail amount by another RM1 million and ordered it to be paid tomorrow.

Najib is already on a RM1 million bail.

The court also ordered the former prime minister to report to a police station twice a month.

The high court will release the full written judgment in three weeks. Ad hoc prosecutor V. Sithambaram has told reporters that the appeals process will take at least a year. – July 30, 2020.