KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia\u2019s attorney-general\u2019s chambers has sought a gag order to ban public discussion of former Prime Minister Najib Razak\u2019s judicial review claim that a document exists allowing him to serve his remaining prison sentence under house arrest, according to state news agency Bernama.
\nNajib, jailed for his role in the multi-billion dollar 1MDB scandal, is pursuing a legal bid to compel authorities to confirm the existence of and execute an \u201caddendum order\u201d that he said was issued last year as part of a pardon by then-King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah, entitling him to serve the remainder of his sentence at home.
\nThe issue has caused a huge stir in Malaysia, with disgraced political heavyweight Najib insisting the former king\u2019s addendum order was ignored by authorities when they announced the halving of his sentence last year.
\nThe former king\u2019s palace has issued a letter saying the document does exist, but Malaysia\u2019s law ministry said it has no record of it, its home minister has denied knowledge and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said \u201cwe did not hide anything.\u201d
\nBernama on Monday quoted Shamsul Bolhassan, deputy chief of the chambers\u2019 civil division, as saying the gag order request had been filed to a court.
\nThe official had previously said the case touched on sensitive issues, according to Bernama.
\nNajib was found guilty in 2020 of criminal breach of trust and abuse of power for illegally receiving funds misappropriated from a unit of state investor 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
\nHe is on trial for corruption in several other 1MDB-linked cases and denies wrongdoing. Najib this month hailed as \u201cone step forward\u201d the Court of Appeal\u2019s decision to overturn the dismissal of his attempt to access the document. The case will go back to court to be heard by another judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia\u2019s attorney-general\u2019s chambers has sought a gag order to ban public discussion of former Prime Minister Najib Razak\u2019s judicial review claim that a document exists allowing him to serve his remaining prison sentence under house arrest, according to state news agency Bernama. Najib, jailed for his role in the multi-billion dollar 1MDB scandal, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75874,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75859\/revisions\/75874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}