Senior lawyer Mohd Shafee Abdullah is anticipating a fun-filled affair on the legal proceedings for the six fresh charges against his client, former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.

However, Shafee predicted that the prosecution would be facing a hard time proving the charges, which he claimed were trumped-up.

“I think the defence in this case will have fun, and the prosecution will have a nightmare.

"I think the AGC (Attorney-General's Chambers) 'crafted' these charges. I think it is very foolish,” he told reporters when met outside the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today.

Elaborating, Shafee said the charges concerned executive decisions of the minister of finance (Najib) and Treasury secretary-general (Irwan Serigar Abdullah).

He explained that the decisions were to re-channel finances which have been earmarked for a specific purpose for another more important objective.

"All six charges say you got allocations for a certain purpose, (but) you have made the decision to divert those funds to pay for another purpose.

"We are looking forward for this series of charges and we are going to have fun," he added.

Shafee said Irwan had decided, together with various committees, to reallocate and reprioritise their needs for the funds to meet the more urgent ones.

"That doesn't mean the previous allocation remains vacant. That will be met by subsequent funding. It's just a question of making priorities. So you can see the silliness of these charges," he said.

Charge sheet given five minutes before case

Shafee lamented about being furnished with the charge sheet only five minutes before the court proceeding and claimed that the prosecutors were dishonest.

"I complained that if you had given the charge sheet earlier, especially yesterday, we don't need to adjourn for half-an-hour or an hour. We were told they got it finalised this morning and that's why they couldn't give it to us earlier."

He said that he doubted the claims because the prosecutors had filed it at 6.30pm yesterday.

"I don't understand why the prosecutors need to be dishonest like that. If you are supposed to give us the copy, give us the copy early so we can study it and agree to many things, perhaps, and disagree on certain things," Shafee added.

Najib and Irwan pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court today to six counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT) involving RM6,636,065,000 in funds belonging to the government.