PM: Solicitor-General to fill in as Apandi put on gardening leave

(MMO) – Attorney-General Tan Sri Apandi Ali has been placed on indefinite leave and his duties will be assumed by the Solicitor-General until further notice, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Speaking to the media at a press conference here, Dr Mahathir said Apandi could not be suspended as there were only allegations and complaints against him.

“AG will be on leave and his place in the Pardons Board will be taken over by the Solicitor-General, who can execute the role of an AG,” he said.

The Solicitor-General is currently Datuk Engku Nor Faizah Engku Atek, who has the powers of a deputy public prosecutor and may assume the AG’s prosecutorial role in the latter’s absence or incapacity, under the subsection 376(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code.