PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s lead defence counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah has apologised for the media statement regarding the former premier’s RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption trial, Malaysiakini reports.
However, the lawyer insisted that the press statement was accurate and with no exaggeration.
“I profusely apologise to the court if there is misconstrue of the media statement. The statement is accurate and with no exaggeration,” the lawyer said.
Shafee responded to the prosecution’s warning over his press briefing that he did two days earlier.
Yesterday, before trial judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, lead deputy public prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram warned Shafee over the media statement, which allegedly amounted to an attack on the prosecution.