AG fails appeal, review on Najib's Addendum Order issue to proceed
The Attorney General (AG) failed in his appeal at the Federal Court here on Wednesday to overturn a decision allowing Datuk Seri Najib Razak to commence judicial review proceedings for an order compelling the government or six other parties to answer and confirm the existence of the Addendum Order.
PUTRAJAYA – The Attorney General (AG) failed in his appeal at the Federal Court here on Wednesday to overturn a decision allowing Datuk Seri Najib Razak to commence judicial review proceedings for an order compelling the government or six other parties to answer and confirm the existence of the Addendum Order.
Following this, the review will proceed at the Kuala Lumpur High Court according to the dates that have been set.
The unanimous decision was made by a three-judge panel led by the Chief Judge of Malaya, Tan Sri Hasnah Mohammed Hashim, who sat with Federal Court judges Datuk Zabariah Mohd Yusof and Datuk Hanipah Farikullah.
On Jan 6, the Court of Appeal allowed Najib's appeal to initiate judicial review proceedings at the High Court for an order compelling the government or six other parties to answer and confirm the existence of the Addendum Order dated January last year.
In the judicial review, Najib named the Home Minister, the Commissioner General of Prisons, the Attorney General, the Pardons Board for the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform), the Director-General of the Legal Affairs Division in the Prime Minister's Department and the Government of Malaysia as respondents.
Among the relief sought in the judicial review was for all or any of the respondents to provide a copy of the main decree by the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong regarding the reduction of his prison sentence and fine. Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was brought into the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya today. Photo by Bernama
Najib is also seeking an order that, if the decree exists, all or any of the respondents must implement it by transferring him from Kajang Prison to his residence in Kuala Lumpur immediately to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.
Najib, who has been serving his sentence in Kajang Prison since 23 August 2022 after being convicted of misappropriating RM42 million from SRC International Sdn Bhd, filed a petition for royal pardon on Sept 2, 2022.
The Pardons Board later reduced his prison sentence from 12 years to six years, while the fine was reduced from RM210 million to RM50 million.
On July 3 last year, the High Court rejected Najib's application to initiate judicial review proceedings, before he appealed the decision at the Court of Appeal.
The High Court ruled that four affidavits supporting Najib's claims, including statements by Umno President Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Vice President Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail, were hearsay and inadmissible as evidence.
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