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Political Crony Writes Malaysian Judicial Decision

Political Crony Writes Malaysian Judicial Decision

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Feb 14, 2008
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In an astonishing display of the corruption of Malaysia’s legal system, a legal secretary testified Tuesday that a plaintiff’s lawyer in 1994 wrote an entire judgment to be read by a presiding judge who awarded RM10 million in defamation damages to a crony of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad against a journalist and six other defendants.

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