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Shahrir wants judge disqualified from hearing malicious prosecution suit, says lawyer

today14 March 2024

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Former Felda chairman Shahrir Samad is objecting to legal firm Tommy Thomas Advocates and Solicitors representing the ex-attorney-general on grounds of conflict of interest. (Bernama pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: Former Felda chairman Shahrir Samad, who has filed a malicious prosecution suit against former attorney-general Tommy Thomas and three others, has objected to judicial commissioner Roz Mawar Rozain from presiding over the case.

Lawyer Haikaldin Mahyidin, representing Thomas, said the former Johor Bahru MP’s lawyers want the judge recused on grounds that she may be privy to 1MDB matters.

Before Roz Mawar was appointed as a judicial commissioner, she was attached to the prosecution division of the Securities Commission Malaysia.

Haikaldin said Shahrir was also objecting to legal firm Tommy Thomas Advocates and Solicitors representing Thomas on grounds of conflict of interest.

“They contend that one of the lawyers from this firm could be involved in the 1MDB investigations,” said…

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