The High Court here has granted leave to the family of the late Daim Zainuddin to initiate judicial review proceedings against the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s seizure and freezing of their bank accounts.
Justice Aliza Sulaiman ruled that the family had met the threshold required to justify a judicial review after finding that there was a prima facie case of bad faith by the authorities.
Aliza said the applicants had shown that the MACC proceeded with the seizures despite knowing that the period allowed under the MACC Act 2009 had expired, and that no investigation paper had been opened under the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 (Amla).
She noted that invoking Amla provisions after the expiry of the seizure period under the MACC Act raised serious questions…