PETALING JAYA: Lead deputy public prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram today told Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s lawyers to try his 1MDB case in court instead of the media.
Sri Ram told the Kuala Lumpur High Court that lead defence lawyer Tan Sri Mohamed Shafee Abdullah had misled the media by claiming that the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence, The Malaysian Insight reports.
Sri Ram said the letters which the defence claimed was not produced was already submitted to the defence during Najib’s SRC International trial.
“How can he call the media like this and have a press conference? If he (Shafee) wants to fight, let us fight it out in court.
“The accused (Najib) lawyers must conduct the trial in court and not in public,” he said.
Muhammad Shafee in a press conference yesterday claimed that the prosecution suppressed evidence pertaining to the trial.
The senior lawyer also distributed a copy of the said letters bearing Abdulaziz Majid Al Saud’s private office’s letterhead addressed to Najib’s house in Jalan Langgak Duta.
Shafee also distributed several pages of Najib’s bank account statements used in the proceedings.
He claimed the prosecution had failed to disclose/deliver to the defence the details of five other subsequent transactions which the defence had got through their own investigation.