Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s legal team is preparing to mount a challenge against the report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Bank Negara’s forex losses in the 1990’s and will be filing papers in court soon.
The lawyer for Mahathir, Mohd Haniff Khatri Abdulla said the deadline for the RCI to respond to Mahathir’s letter of demand had lapsed on Friday last week, and he had yet to receive a response as of yesterday.
“We are preparing the cause papers. In the very near future, we will file the necessary application in court and we will inform you,” Haniff told reporters outside the Court of Appeal today.
The letter of demand sent on Dec 4 demanded that the commission include Mahathir’s submissions in its report, threatening legal action if the RCI failed to abide by the request.
Haniff had previously told Malaysiakini that Mahathir had provided 495 pages of supporting documents and written submissions, and its omission from the RCI report means "it contains half-baked stories which are just to further the conniving and dishonest intentions of the ruling party”.
The letter claimed that three written requests by Mahathir, written submissions by his lawyers and the transcript of the proceeding on the submissions and the requests were missing from the 524-page report, which was tabled in Parliament on Nov 30.
[More to follow]
- Mkini
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