Some 10 lawyers have already offered to provide free legal services to former Bank Negara governer Zeti Akhtar Aziz, former MACC chief Abu Kassim Mohamed and former attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail.

This is according to lawyer Yusmadi Yusoff, who mooted that a team of volunteers be set up to act as the trio's legal counsel, following the police report lodged against them over an alleged conspiracy to topple Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

"I proposed that lawyers form a volunteer team to defend Zeti, Abu Kassim and Abdul Gani, because for me, they are symbols of our institutions which must be defended," the former Balik Pulau MP told Malaysiakini.