Kuala Lumpur: The High Court here has fixed June 5 to rule on whether to allow Najib Razak to proceed with his bid to compel the government to produce a “supplementary order” purportedly issued by the former king.
The purported order allegedly allows the former prime minister to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.Lawyer Shafee Abdullah told reporters this after the hearing in chambers before Justice Amarjeet Singh, which members of the public were not allowed to attend.
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Shafee also said his team had sent seven letters to ministers and government departments asking them to confirm whether the supplementary order existed, but “they never answered”.In his application filed on April 1, Najib claimed that then Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah had issued the supplementary decree during the Federal Territories Pardons Board’s meeting on Jan 29, a day before his term ended.
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