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Derek Achong

A for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer will not face a re­tri­al for al­leged­ly re­ceiv­ing a $1,500 bribe al­most two decades ago, af­ter the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil dis­missed a fi­nal ap­peal by the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP).

In its rul­ing, the Law Lords up­held the lo­cal Court of Ap­peal’s 2021 de­ci­sion to stay the crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion of re­tired of­fi­cer Nawaz Ali, cit­ing an “un­rea­son­able” 15-year de­lay in bring­ing the mat­ter to con­clu­sion.