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Malaysia court denounces smear campaign after alleged guilty verdict against Najib’s wife Rosmah leaked

  • The country’s top court condemned a news website’s action as ‘a deliberate act’ to smear the judiciary’s reputation after it posted the purported document
  • The High Court will deliver its ruling next week in Rosmah Mansor’s corruption trial linked to a solar energy project

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Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak with his wife Rosmah Mansor in Kuala Lumpur. File photo: AP
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Malaysia’s top court on Saturday condemned as a smear attempt the leaking of an alleged guilty verdict against the wife of former prime minister Najib Razak days after he was imprisoned for corruption linked to the looted 1MDB state fund.
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The High Court is due to deliver its verdict on Thursday in Rosmah Mansor’s corruption trial over a 1.25-billion-ringgit (US$279 million) solar energy project. Najib began a 12-year prison term on Tuesday after losing his final appeal in one of the five corruption cases against him involving 1MDB.

The Malaysia Today website, run by a Malaysian blogger now based in England, posted a 71-page document it described as containing a guilty judgment against Rosmah. The report late Friday alleged the verdict was written by unknown people and not by the High Court judge handling Rosmah’s case.

The chief registrar office of the Federal Court, Malaysia’s top court, condemned the website’s action as “a deliberate act” to smear the court’s reputation.

It said it has lodged a complaint with police and vowed the court would not be cowed by attempts to threaten the administration of justice.

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“This office stresses that the judiciary will not be harassed by illegal and irresponsible acts meant to tarnish the integrity of the country’s judicial system,” the statement said.

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