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Super rich ‘Fat Mama’ Rosmah freed of 12 money laundering charges involving RM7.09m

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Super rich ‘Fat Mama’ Rosmah freed of 12 money laundering charges involving RM7.09m

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19, 2024: The super rich wife of disgraced and shameless former prime minister, Najib “1MDB” Razak, Rosmah Mansor was today acquitted of 12 money laundering charges involving RM7.09 million.

The High Court ruled that the charges were illegal and flawed as they did not comply with provisions in the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).

Justice K. Muniandy also freed her of five charges of failing to declare her income to the Inland Revenue Board (IRB).

However, “Fat Mama” Rosmah is still appealing before the Court of Appeal over her conviction in the RM1.25 billion corruption case on a solar energy project for rural schools in Sarawak.

In September 2022, she was jailed 10 years and fined RM970 million for corruption in connection with the RM1.25 billion project.

No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the court proceedings:

Acquittal ‘a special birthday present for me’, Rosmah says

V Anbalagan

-19 Dec 2024, 11:44 AM

The wife of former prime minister Najib Razak says this is ‘the justice she was waiting for’. 

Rosmah Mansor was standing trial on 12 money laundering charges involving RM7.09 million and five charges of failing to declare her income to the Inland Revenue Board. (Bernama pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor said that the High Court’s decision to free her of 17 money laundering and tax evasion charges today was a belated birthday gift for her.

Rosmah, the wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, turned 73 on Dec 10.

“The court’s decision is a special birthday present for me,” she told reporters at the court compound today.

“I will relay this good message to my husband. This is the justice I was waiting for.”

Rosmah was standing trialon 12 money laundering charges involving RM7.09 million and five charges of failing to declare her income to the Inland Revenue Board.

Justice K Muniandy had allowed her application to have all of the charges against her quashed.

He said the charges were illegal and flawed as they did not comply with provisions in the Criminal Procedure Code.

Rosmah still has an appeal pending before the Court of Appeal over her conviction in the RM1.25 billion corruption case on a solar energy project for rural schools in Sarawak.

In September 2022, she was sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined RM970 million after being found guilty of corruption in connection with the RM1.25 billion project.

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