PUTRAJAYA (July 5): Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s lawyers filed a notice of motion to seek leave (permission) from the Federal Court to appeal over the June 22 Court of Appeal (COA) decision that dismissed her appeal to nullify her solar hybrid trial.

The motion with five questions of law was filed by her solicitors from Messrs Akberdin & Co on Tuesday (July 4).

This follows questions surrounding when the judicial review by Rosmah should have been filed to challenge the then senior deputy public prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram's (now deceased) fiat.

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On July 22, a three-member COA bench, ruled there is no merit in Rosmah’s appeal, where it ruled the judicial review application was filed out of time and there were no valid grounds for the court to exercise its discretion to grant an extension.

Rosmah’s lawyers had applied for her criminal appeal, scheduled to be heard from July 11 to 14 at the COA, to be adjourned pending the disposal of her leave to appeal and possibly the apex court to hear the merits of her appeal first.

The COA has fixed Friday (July 7) to hear the application to adjourn.

Rosmah, 71, had on Sept 1, last year been found guilty by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur on all three counts of graft relating to a solar hybrid project for 369 rural schools in Sarawak beginning 2016. For her guilt, she was sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined RM970 million. 

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