DPM Zahid backs existence of previous Agong’s order for Najib to serve remaining sentence at home

By admin-s On Apr 17, 2024

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has now been revealed to be the “critical” witness who filed a testimony in support of Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s legal bid to compel the federal government and the Pardons Board to produce a purported “supplementary order” from the previous Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

(MMO) – In his application for leave to seek judicial review filed on April 1, Najib claimed the former King issued the order during the January 29 meeting of the board, for the former to serve the remainder of his reduced sentence under house arrest.

In court documents sighted by Malay Mail today, Ahmad Zahid’s affidavit claimed that the existence of the “supplementary order” or Addendum Order had been affirmed by a fellow Cabinet member Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz who is the Investment, Trade and Industry (Miti) minister.

Ahmad Zahid said Tengku Zafrul had affirmed the order’s existence during a meeting at the former’s house in Country Heights, Kajang on January 30.

“Upon querying further, he subsequently showed me a copy of the said Addendum Order on his phone which he photographed from an original copy as shown to him by His Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong XVI.

“The contents of the Addendum Order expressly stated that the applicant be allowed to serve the reduced sentence of his imprisonment under the condition of ‘home arrest’, instead of the current confinement of Kajang Prison.

“I verily believe that for the sufficient period of time I sighted and read the Addendum Order, and I clearly saw the entire contents and that it forms part of the pardon process of the applicant which is supplementary to the Main Order both dated January 29,” Ahmad Zahid’s affidavit that was filed on April 9 read.