Senior lawyer Cecil Abraham is expected to face the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board this Saturday, where a mystery witness and the late private investigator P Balasubramaniam’s lawyer Americk Sidhu are expected to testify.
The hearing is over the alleged misconduct charge faced by Cecil (left) for his, and his son Sunil’s role in drafting the second statutory declaration by Balasubramaniam, in denying that present Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had known Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Balasubramaniam had in his first SD claimed Najib knew and had relations with Altantuya.
Two police Special Action Unit members, namely Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, were charged and found guilty at the Shah Alam High Court with murdering Altantuya, while political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, once Najib’s close confidante, was acquitted.
However, the two policemen were both acquitted by the Court of Appeal last year and a decision is pending on the two policemen following the prosecution’s appeal at the Federal Court.
Americk, who helped draft Balasubramaniam’s first SD, had revealed in a Malaysian Bar annual general meeting last year that Cecil admitted to drafting the second SD on Najib’s instructions.
The revelation to the AGM came a day after Balasubramaniam’s death after he and his family had been in exile for more than four years after retracting the first SD and then making the second SD.
This has resulted in the disciplinary inquiry against Cecil.
Balasubramaniam’s family had also filed a RM1.9 million suit at the Kuala Lumpur High Court, where they named Najib and his wife Rosmah Mansor and two other brothers of Najib, as well as Cecil, in the suit. The suit was filed following breaking information which was discovered by Americk.
All the parties who are being sued by Balasubramaniam’s widow have filed applications to strike out the suit.
Senior lawyer Bastian Vendargon is expected to appear for the Bar Council in this hearing. He replaces earlier counsel Lambert Rasaratnam.
The disciplinary board is chaired by former Court of Appeal judge Syed Ahmad Helmy Syed Ahmad, and has 15 other members.
Various people when contacted by Malaysiakini are keeping mum as to whom the mystery witness could be. However, it is speculated that the person is a lawyer who was initially approached to draft Balasubramaniam’s seconed SD, to which the person declined and the role was given to Cecil.
As with other hearing, the hearing on Saturday is being done behind closed doors.
The hearing is over the alleged misconduct charge faced by Cecil (left) for his, and his son Sunil’s role in drafting the second statutory declaration by Balasubramaniam, in denying that present Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had known Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu.Balasubramaniam had in his first SD claimed Najib knew and had relations with Altantuya.
Two police Special Action Unit members, namely Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, were charged and found guilty at the Shah Alam High Court with murdering Altantuya, while political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, once Najib’s close confidante, was acquitted.
However, the two policemen were both acquitted by the Court of Appeal last year and a decision is pending on the two policemen following the prosecution’s appeal at the Federal Court.
Americk, who helped draft Balasubramaniam’s first SD, had revealed in a Malaysian Bar annual general meeting last year that Cecil admitted to drafting the second SD on Najib’s instructions.
The revelation to the AGM came a day after Balasubramaniam’s death after he and his family had been in exile for more than four years after retracting the first SD and then making the second SD.
This has resulted in the disciplinary inquiry against Cecil.
Balasubramaniam’s family had also filed a RM1.9 million suit at the Kuala Lumpur High Court, where they named Najib and his wife Rosmah Mansor and two other brothers of Najib, as well as Cecil, in the suit. The suit was filed following breaking information which was discovered by Americk.
All the parties who are being sued by Balasubramaniam’s widow have filed applications to strike out the suit.
Senior lawyer Bastian Vendargon is expected to appear for the Bar Council in this hearing. He replaces earlier counsel Lambert Rasaratnam.
The disciplinary board is chaired by former Court of Appeal judge Syed Ahmad Helmy Syed Ahmad, and has 15 other members.
Various people when contacted by Malaysiakini are keeping mum as to whom the mystery witness could be. However, it is speculated that the person is a lawyer who was initially approached to draft Balasubramaniam’s seconed SD, to which the person declined and the role was given to Cecil.
As with other hearing, the hearing on Saturday is being done behind closed doors.
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