KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court right here on Thursday (June 30) granted lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah a brief launch of his passport to travel to Italy to allow him to settle his daughter’s faculty switch issues.
Judge Datuk Muhammad Jamil Hussin allowed the applying for the passport to be launched quickly from July 8 to August 11 after Deputy Public Prosecutor Afzainizam Abdul Aziz didn’t object to it.
Counsel Wee Yeong Kang representing Muhammad Shafee, stated his shopper wants to be in Italy to settle issues for the switch of his second daughter from the International School of Europe in Milan, Italy to the International School of Kuala Lumpur.
“He will also be meeting his eldest daughter who is studying at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy,” he stated.
According to the discover of movement filed on June 24, Muhammad Shafee requested that his worldwide passport be handed over to him quickly newest by July 1 in order that he might make preparations to depart for Italy from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on July 8.
Muhammad Shafee, 70, who’s former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s lead counsel in instances associated to SRC International Sdn Bhd and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), had been granted permission to travel overseas on a number of events after he himself was charged in court.
The senior lawyer had surrendered his passport to the court in September 2018 after he was charged with two counts of receiving cash which had been derived from unlawful actions amounting RM9.5mil by means of two checks issued by Najib which had been allegedly deposited into his CIMB Bank Berhad account.
He can be dealing with two costs of partaking in transactions ensuing from unlawful actions, particularly submitting incorrect tax returns and in violation of Paragraph 113(1)(a) of the Income Tax Act 1967 for the monetary years ended Dec 31, 2013 and 2014.
On May 12, the prosecution closed the case after calling eight witnesses in the course of the trial which started on May 21, 2021 and oral submissions had been set for Sept 15 earlier than Judge Muhammad Jamil.- Bernama