Court to hear Najib's bid for committal proceedings against ex-A-G on Aug 19
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court will hear Datuk Seri Najib Razak's leave application to initiate committal proceedings against former Attorney-General Tan Sri Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh.
Judge K. Muniandy made the decision after ruling that the committal application was not subject to an earlier High Court order that stayed all proceedings related to Najib's judicial review over his house arrest claim.
On April 28, judge Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz, who has since been elevated to the Court of Appeal, granted a stay order pending Najib's final attempt to reinstate his judicial review application at the Federal Court.
The court has fixed Aug 19 to hear the leave application.
The former prime minister filed the application against Terrirudin, now a Federal Court judge, alleging that he misled the court during proceedings involving an alleged addendum order by the former Yang di-Pertuan Agong, which purportedly allowed Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.
Earlier, senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan submitted that the committal application should not proceed, arguing that the stay order applied to all related applications.
However, Najib's lead counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, contended that the committal proceedings were clearly separate and independent, and that the stay applied only to the original applications that remained pending in court.
He said the judge had specifically referred to "all proceedings before the court", whereas the committal leave application had not yet been brought before the court at the time the stay was issued.
Najib is currently serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of misappropriating RM42 million from SRC International Sdn Bhd.
The High Court had initially sentenced him to 12 years in prison and fined him RM210 million, a decision upheld by both the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court.
However, following a petition for royal clemency on Sept 2, 2022, his sentence was commuted to six years and the fine was reduced to RM50 million.
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