KUALA LUMPUR (March 26): Imprisoned former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will attend the March 31 decision on one of the civil cases brought against him by SRC International Sdn Bhd.
The Order To Produce, a court directive requiring prison authorities to bring a person in custody before the court, was given during a case management on Thursday.
The ex-PM’s counsel Wan Arfan Wan Othman confirmed the matter when contacted by The Edge.
In this particular case before trial judge Datuk Ahmad Fairuz Zainol Abidin, the company is seeking a declaration from the court that Najib is liable to account for the company's losses of US$1.18 billion due to breach of duties and trust.
This is a separate proceeding from the SRC criminal case for which Najib is serving his prison sentence after the apex court upheld his guilty conviction for criminal breach of trust, money laundering, and abuse of power of SRC funds amounting to RM42 million which was received between Dec 26, 2014 and Feb 10, 2015.
Initially, the suit had also named former company board members Tan Sri Ismee Ismail, Datuk Suboh Md Yassin, Datuk Mohammed Azhar Osman Khairuddin, Datuk Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi, and Datuk Che Abdullah @ Rashidi Che Omar as defendants.
They were dropped later, only for Najib to bring them back again as third parties.
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