The Federal Courtroom had set aside 9 days from Aug 15 to August 19 as well as August 23 to Aug 26, to hear the particular appeal.
Last month, Najib discharged his lead defence lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah. He hired another law firm, Messrs Zaid Ibrahim Suflan TH Liew & Partners, to symbolize him in the attractiveness.
This was after the Kuala Lumpur High Court rejected an application by Uk Queen’s Counsel Jonathan Laidlaw to be accepted to the Bar in order to represent Najib in the final appeal.
In its brief choice, the court stated that there were no novel, complex and serious issues in the appeal that would require the Queen Counsel’s participation.
The High Courtroom had on Jul 28, 2020 found Najib guilty of misappropriating SRC International funds.
The fees against Najib, who seem to served as best minister from this year to 2018, involved the transfer of RM42 million through former 1MDB device SRC International straight into his personal bank details in 2014 and 2015.
He was sentenced to 12 years within jail and fined RM210 million after he was discovered guilty on three counts of lawbreaker breach of rely on, three counts of money laundering and one depend of abuse of power by the High Court.
The particular conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeal on December 8, 2021 once the three-judge panel unanimously dismissed Najib’s attractiveness against the High Court’s decision.
Within 2018, after the Najib-led Barisan Nasional (BN) government was ousted in the 14th common election, then perfect minister Mahathir Mohamad, who was serving an additional stint in the country’s top office, called for investigations on the 1MDB scandal to be reopened.
Najib is also facing several other costs in court which are linked to 1MDB.