28 Jan 2022
NARENDRAN A/L NAGAPPAN
- Citation
- AA-42K-25-04/2021 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
- Court
- High Court
- Case number
- AA-42K-25-04/2021 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
The High Court allowed the appeals because (1) the 35 charges under s.420 were defective and occasioned a failure of justice as the prosecution evidence showed payments to a third party (Ganang Resources) and not solely to the appellant, so sections 156 and 422 could not cure the defect, and (2) a maximum evaluation of the prosecution evidence permitted a reasonable inference in favour of the appellant that the transactions were friendly loans with repayments (documented bank lodgments and civil pleadings), thereby creating reasonable doubt; accordingly convictions and sentences were unsafe a…