PETALING JAYA: Zaid Ibrahim has known as on the prime minister and the attorney-general to carry a press convention to clear the air over a “supplementary order” that apparently allowed former prime minister Najib Razak to serve the rest of his sentence below home arrest.
In an announcement on X (previously Twitter), the previous regulation minister additionally questioned the knowledge of submitting affidavits in relation to Najib’s utility to compel the federal government to supply the “supplementary order”. He stated such affidavits have been topic to cross-examination.
“The easy resolution is for the prime minister to name a press convention and produce alongside the attorney-general,” he stated, referring to Anwar Ibrahim and Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh respectively.
“Answer all of the questions raised. Let the matter finish there. Leave the courts to maintain individuals’s actual issues.”
In his utility filed on April 1, Najib claimed that then Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah had issued the supplementary order in the course of the Federal Territories Pardons Board’s (FTPB) assembly on Jan 29, a day earlier than his time period ended.
The FTPB is headed by the king and consists of 5 members — the attorney-general, federal territories minister and a most of three others appointed by the king.
Najib alleged that the “supplementary order” was not introduced by the board on Feb 2, when it stated it had halved Najib’s jail sentence in his SRC International case from 12 years to 6 and decreased his fantastic from RM210 million to RM50 million.
Najib, 70, is at present serving his sentence on the Kajang jail and is to be launched on Aug 23, 2028.
In an affidavit filed in help of Najib’s utility which surfaced yesterday, deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was reported to have confirmed the existence of the purported order.
Zaid went on to say that it was Anwar’s accountability as prime minister to share all mandatory info along with his Cabinet to allow them to be collectively liable for the choice.
He stated primarily based on the response from some ministers, it appeared unlikely that Anwar had divulged particulars concerning the purported “supplementary order”.
