Court of Appeal allows lawyer Rosli Dahlan to challenge police, prosecution seizure of four ASNB accounts

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 29 — The Court of Appeal today granted lawyer Rosli Dahlan leave to commence a judicial review challenging the police and public prosecutor’s move to seize his four Amanah Saham Nasional Bhd (ASNB) accounts under the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 (AMLA).

A three-member bench comprising Justices Datuk Dr Choo Kah Sing, Datuk Nadzarin Wok Nordin and Datuk Seri Latifah Mohd Tahar unanimously allowed Rosli’s appeal to overturn a High Court decision that had dismissed his leave application.

The appellate bench ordered the case remitted to the High Court for a full hearing on its substantive merits before a different judge or judicial commissioner.

Delivering the court’s decision, Justice Choo held that the High Court had erred in disallowing Rosli’s application for leave to initiate the judicial review.

Justice Choo said the court was of the view that the High Court judge had applied a level of scrutiny more appropriate to a substantive hearing than to a leave application.

He also said Rosli had demonstrated a prima facie arguable case that the seizure orders may have been affected by mala fide, collateral purpose, irrationality or abuse of power.

“Whether those allegations can ultimately be established is a matter for a substantive hearing. The learned High Court judge therefore erred in refusing leave for this preliminary stage,” Justice Choo said.

Rosli’s lawyer Harvinderjit Singh confirmed the court’s decision to Bernama when contacted.

On August 14, 2024, the then High Court judge Tun Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh (now Chief Justice) dismissed Rosli’s application for leave to initiate the judicial review.

In his application filed in December 2023, Rosli named several respondents, including former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain, Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Seri Ramli Mohammed Yoosuf, the Royal Malaysia Police, former Attorney-General Datuk Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh, deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Zulfadli Mohd Nawawi and the Malaysian government.

Rosli is seeking, among other things, a certiorari order to quash the decision or action of the respondents who issued or caused the issuance of the seizure orders under Section 50 of the AMLA Act 2001.

At today’s proceedings, the Attorney-General’s Chambers was represented by senior federal counsel Normastura Ayub and federal counsel Zulkiefli Sulaiman.

Also representing Rosli were lawyers Chetan Jethwani, Amiratu Al Amirat, Ho Yu Fei and Shavitta Devi Raja Mohan. — Bernama

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布城，10 月 29 日讯——上诉法院今日批准律师罗斯利·达兰提起司法审查，挑战警方和检察官根据 2001 年《反洗钱、反恐怖主义融资和非法活动收益法》（AMLA）查封其在国家信托公司（ASNB）的四个账户。

由拿督朱嘉星、拿督纳扎林·沃克·诺丁和拿督斯里·拉蒂法·莫哈末·塔哈尔三位法官组成的三人法庭一致批准了罗斯利的上诉，推翻了高等法院驳回其上诉许可申请的裁决。

上诉法庭下令将案件发回高等法院，由另一位法官或司法专员对案件的实质内容进行全面审理。

朱法官宣读法院判决时认为，高等法院驳回罗斯利提起司法审查的申请是错误的。

朱法官表示，法院认为高等法院法官所采用的审查标准，更适合于实质性聆讯，而不是许可申请。

他还表示，罗斯利已初步证明，扣押令可能受到恶意、附带目的、不合理或滥用权力的影响。

“这些指控最终能否成立，需要通过实质性审理来确定。因此，高等法院法官拒绝批准这一初步阶段的申请是错误的，”朱法官说道。

罗斯利的律师哈文德吉特·辛格在接受马新社采访时证实了法院的裁决。

2024 年 8 月 14 日，时任高等法院法官敦·万·艾哈迈德·法里德·万·萨利赫（现任首席大法官）驳回了罗斯利启动司法审查的申请。

罗斯里在2023年12月提交的申请中列出了几名受访者，包括前警察总监丹斯里拉扎鲁丁侯赛因、商业犯罪调查部主任拿督斯里南利穆罕​​默德尤素福、马来西亚皇家警察、前总检察长拿督艾哈迈德特里鲁丁莫哈末沙烈、副检察官穆罕默德祖尔法德利莫哈末纳瓦维和马来西亚政府。

罗斯利除其他事项外，还寻求调卷令，以撤销被告根据 2001 年《反洗钱法》第 50 条签发或导致签发扣押令的决定或行为。

在今天的庭审中，总检察长办公室由高级联邦律师诺玛斯图拉·阿尤布和联邦律师祖尔基弗利·苏莱曼代表出庭。

代表罗斯利的还有律师 Chetan Jethwani、Amiratu Al Amirat、Ho Yu Fei 和 Shavitta Devi Raja Mohan。 — 马新社

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