The appointment of Gopal Sri Ram as the deputy public prosecutor in the 1MDB-linked cases was to get the former premier Najib Abdul Razak charged and convicted, said lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah.

Shafee, who represented Najib, said this in his submission to the High Court in Kuala Lumpur in a bid to disqualify Sri Ram in the money laundering amounting to RM2.28 billion and 1MDB audit report tampering cases...