After having presided over former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s RM42 million SRC International corruption case, judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali is now part of the Court of Appeal bench that allowed Sam Ke Ting to stay out of jail pending appeal.

Besides judge P Ravinthran, who presided over the three-person bench, and fellow bench member Lee Heng Cheong, Nazlan formed today’s unanimous decision to grant leave to the clerk to proceed with her appeal against her six-year jail term and RM6,000 fine.

Sam, 27, is appealing against...