THE Court of Appeal today granted the prosecution team two additional days for their submissions in Najib Razak’s appeal against his conviction and sentencing in the SRC International case.

The court previously fixed hearings on April 5 to 8, 12 to 15 and 19 to 22 with both the defence and prosecutions teams allocated four days each for their submissions. 

However, the prosecution today requested for more time after the defence team had taken six days for their submissions earlier. 

Court of Appeal judge Karim Abdul Jalil is leading the three-man bench, with judges Has Zanah Mehat and Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera.

They allowed the prosecution’s application for the hearing to take additional days, on April 27 and 28. 

The former prime minister is appealing Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali’s decision on July 28 last year to convict and sentence him to 12 years’ jail and fined him RM210 million on seven charges of criminal breach of trust, money-laundering and abuse of position committed in the fund’s embezzlement. 

Najib, 67, has submitted 307 grounds on why he should be cleared of his charges involving RM42 million of SRC International funds.

The Pekan MP is currently out on bail of RM2 million in two sureties.

The hearing is now stretched to 14 days with the prosecution ending their submissions by this Thursday.

Aside from that, Karim extended the hearing hours to end at 4pm tomorrow. It was previously set to adjourn at 3pm during the fasting month. 

The appeal hearing resumes tomorrow at 9am. – April 19, 2021.