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Free Malaysia Today
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Prisons dept was okay with Najib filing report, says Shafee
Lawyer Shafee Abdullah said the prisons department needed permission from the home minister for Najib Razak to file a police report in person. KUALA LUMPUR : Najib Razak's lawyer claims that the prisons department would have allowed the former prime minister to file a police report over the royal addendum issue if home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail had given permission. However, Shafee Abdullah said that multiple letters for permission from the minister went unanswered, forcing him to help lodge the report on behalf of his client. 'The prison authorities are generous, they had no objections to Najib filing a report himself. Unfortunately, they needed permission from their superior, which is the home minister. 'We wrote to him multiple times but there was no reply,' he told a press conference at the lobby of the court complex here today. Earlier this week, Shafee lodged a police report against former attorney-general Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh for allegedly 'deliberately misleading' the High Court that the royal addendum was speculative and based on hearsay evidence. He lodged the report at the Dang Wangi police headquarters. Shafee claimed that Terrirudin had committed an offence under Section 209 of the Penal Code, which relates to dishonestly making a false claim before a court. He also accused the ex-AG of committing an offence under Section 204 of the Penal Code by hiding a document with the intention of preventing it from being used as evidence in court. Last month, Najib filed an application to initiate contempt proceedings against Terrirudin, who is now a Federal Court judge. His legal team claimed that Terrirudin, while serving as the AG, failed to reveal the former king's royal addendum allowing Najib to serve the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest. During a hearing in January, Shafee told the Court of Appeal that the addendum was sent by the Pahang palace to Terrirudin on Jan 29, 2024.
Free Malaysia Today
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
August hearing for Najib's contempt proceedings against ex-AG
Najib Razak is pursuing contempt proceedings against former attorney-general Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh over the latter's alleged failure to reveal the existence of a royal decree allowing him to be placed under house arrest. KUALA LUMPUR : The High Court has set Aug 19 to hear Najib Razak's application to cite former attorney-general (AG) Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh for contempt of court. The former prime minister wants the court to hold Terrirudin in contempt for his alleged failure to reveal the existence of a royal decree, made by the previous Yang di-Pertuan Agong at the end of his tenure, placing Najib under house arrest. Justice K Muniandy said the present application, filed on May 21, was not caught by an earlier ruling halting all proceedings in the case pending the disposal of the current AG's appeal to the Federal Court. Justice Hayatul Akmal Aziz, who previously presided over the case, issued the order on April 28. 'The judge (Hayatul) has qualified herself to say that she is leaving it to the discretion of the succeeding judge. 'This court is bound by the earlier order which reflects the intention of the parties and the order. 'Therefore, the earlier order prevails, but it does not include the present contempt application,' he said. Muniandy took over the matter from Hayatul, who was elevated to the Court of Appeal on May 20. During submissions earlier this morning, senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan called for the court not to fix the application for hearing, arguing that it was caught by Hayatul's stay order. In reply, senior lawyer Shafee Abdullah contended that contempt proceedings were independent of the suit, and therefore not subjected to the order. 'So, a contempt application is definitely in a class of its own and it cannot be included within the so-called stay ordered by the court,' he said. On July 28, 2020, the High Court convicted Najib of seven charges and sentenced him to 12 years in prison and a fine of RM210 million. His subsequent appeals to the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court were dismissed. On Feb 2 last year, the Federal Territories Pardons Board announced that former king Al-Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah had halved Najib's prison sentence to six years, and reduced his fine to RM50 million. However, it made no mention of any decree allowing Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest. On Jan 6, Najib obtained leave from the Court of Appeal to begin judicial review proceedings to enforce the former king's decree. Najib is currently serving his reduced jail term at Kajang prison.
