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Monday, April 6, 2015

Rafizi’s appeal in bank info leak case struck out

Federal Court does not have the jurisdiction to hear appeal as the case originated from the Sessions Court.
Rafizi-ramli_mahkamah_600PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court here struck out an appeal by Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli today to dismiss the charge against him for leaking confidential banking information.
Court of Appeal president Md Raus Sharif, leading a five-member panel, ruled that the Federal Court did not have the jurisdiction to hear Mohd Rafizi’s appeal as the case had originated from the Sessions Court.
With the ruling, the PKR secretary-general has to stand trial in the Sessions Court for allegedly violating the Banking and Financial Institutions Act (Bafia).
Justice Md Raus set tomorrow for the case to be mentioned at the Shah Alam Sessions Court.
The panel also comprised Federal Court judges Ahmad Maarop, Zainun Ali, Jeffrey Tan Kok Wha and Abu Samah Nordin.
Rafizi, 38, was charged in August 2012 at Shah Alam Sessions Court with revealing four Public Bank customer-profile documents to unauthorised individuals.
The documents consisted of balance summaries relating to the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), National Meat and Livestock Sdn Bhd, Agroscience Industries Sdn Bhd and NFC chairman Mohamad Salleh Ismail.
He allegedly disclosed the contents to media consultant Yusuf Abdul Alim and The Star reporter Erle Martin Carvalho at the PKR’s headquarters at Merchant Square in Petaling Jaya on March 7, 2012.
Rafizi applied on September 10, 2012 to strike out the charge and it was rejected by the Shah Alam High Court on November 23, 2012.
On May 23, 2013, the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal on the grounds that it had no merit.
At the outset, deputy public prosecutor Nahra Dollah objected to Rafizi’s appeal, saying that the matter could not proceed at the Federal Court as the case originated from the Sessions Court.
“This matter which originated in the Sessions Court must only end in the Court of Appeal and not go beyond that,” she said.
Rafizi, who was present in court today, was represented by lawyer Latheefa Koya.
– BERNAMA

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