00:01The federal court's much-anticipated decision on the prosecution's appeal against MUAR MP
00:06Sadiq Syed Abdul Rahman's acquittal failed to materialize on Tuesday
00:11after one of the panel judges had fallen ill.
00:15Court of Appeal
00:16President Justice Abu Bakar Jais walked into the courtroom alone at 9.30am sharp
00:21without fellow panel member Federal Court Judge Justice Colin Lawrence Sequeira beside him.
00:27Justice Abu Bakar announced that Datuk Cheh Mohamed Ruzima Ghazali,
00:31the third judge on the panel, was unwell and resting for two days.
00:34He said the panel of judges was ready with the decision,
00:38but it would not be right to deliver the decision without all three members present.
00:43Syed Sadiq was hoping to learn whether he remains a free man
00:46or whether the Apex Court would reinstate his conviction
00:49and sentence over four charges linked to 1.12 million ringgit in armada funds
00:55involving criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of funds and money laundering.
01:00The Court of Appeal had unanimously acquitted and discharged him on June 25th last year,
01:06overturning a high court sentence of seven years jail,
01:09two strokes of the cane and a 10 million ringgit fine handed down in November 2023.
01:15The federal court will now deliver its verdict on July 13th.
01:18Mayfair!
01:24Hello!
01:27Oh my god, no incredible thing...
01:29Yeah...
01:30Yeah...
01:38Okay...
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