QUOTE(TheBornLoser @ Aug 29 2019, 12:36 PM)
For AMLA, money trail is practically enough to score head shot on opponent. When I was still in practice, AMLA was the most difficult act to defend against, because the money trail (or lack of one) is practically all that is needed for prosecution to discharge their burden of proof.
This write up from NST describes the threat of AMLA well enough:
https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnists/2...ful-legislationI take the position Najib and Rosmah are screwed on the AMLA part. It is the big 4 charges where they "might" have a fighting chance. But it is also "quite" clear to me that the circumstantial evidence against them is overwhelming.
Bring on their prince. If there was a genuine prince all along, they wouldn't have hid him for so long, and he would clearly come out and say that he was a donor and why he was a donor. You do not hide your prince until your trial is halfway through and then bring him out to surprise everyone - that is the strongest signal of unreliability and lack of credibility.
Anyway, I have said my piece and my opinion. I trust Sri Ram to do a good job and score several convictions against Najib. This will start the flood of convictions against the rest of the crooks. If you have a different opinion, then agree to disagree and let's just wait for the trial to end and the results to come out.
I guess if the money trail can be established (and I think USA has already established the money trail before they seized the related assets and frozen the bank accounts), it doen't matter if it is a direct or indirect debit into Najib's accounts. All money laundering goes through several different accounts in different countries trying to lose the trail before arriving at the beneficiary accounts. That's why a good launderer is paid a fortune. Jho Low is clearly not good enough to launder 2.6B.. lol
Moreover, why some people think Prince will not launder money, especially when you have many of them in Arab? Even if the Prince (he is obviously not a governing Prince) takes the stand, he will need to explain the money that went into his account before arriving at Najib's to convince the judge it was a donation. His Kingdom has clearly stated that they did not donate the money. It means if the Prince did transfer the money, he did it in his personal capacity and it was not related to his Kingdom.
If the prosecutor can prove the money trail, both the Prince and Najib GG. This is what I understood from the lengthy posts. I'm not in a law profession, but I learned more from your posts than the other forummer. He lost me when he failed to address the money trail (how money trail is irrelevance to the case) and insisted that Najib can only be guilty if there was a direct debit. I may have miss understood him, but he did not articulate well his points. You can't blame me for not understanding... lol.
I feel this thread should be in serious/k.