Justo’s new lawyer, Worrasit Piriyawiboon, filed the appeal in the court yesterday morning with 59 pages of supporting documents, just two days before the period to appeal expires.
Among the reasons for the appeal was that Justo did not tamper with the documents he obtained from PetroSaudi and it was his first offence. This raises a question: If Justo did not tamper with the documents, then who did?
Was it Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown or others? Worrasit told Bernama that any damage to the image of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was because of the activities of third parties, who had doctored or tampered with the documents they received from Justo.
He said Justo did not tamper with the documents. “Those who doctored the information have to take responsibility and face legal action,” Worrasit said after filing the appeal. He said in his opinion, Justo’s role in the case was not serious, as the documents had been tampered by other people.
Mr Worrasit is right, in that his client did not doctor the documents.
Nor did anybody else.
If they had they would long since have faced the legal consequences, as any ‘tampering’ could be easily demonstrated.
So, the PM, 1MDB and PetroSaudi have all run away from taking legal action, which would have been the obvious course if they were innocent.
The only person to have dishonoured the Prime Minister’s reputation, therefore, is himself!