Even Najib Abdul Razak has no idea if the Pardons Board is sitting this month to hear his pardon bid, said the ex-prime minister’s lead defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah.

Responding to a Channel News Asia report earlier today claiming the board would be sitting this month, the lawyer questioned how the media organisation could obtain this information as such sittings are conducted with a high level of secrecy.

“We as lawyers of Najib...