Aug 13 apex court decision on AG's appeal in Najib's house arrest bid

The Federal Court has fixed Aug 13 to deliver its verdict on the attorney-general (AG)’s appeal in former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s bid for house arrest.

Najib’s lawyer Farhan Shafee confirmed the date when contacted by Malaysiakini today.

The AG, Dusuki Mokhtar, was appealing against the Court of Appeal’s decision dated Jan 6, which returned Najib’s case to the High Court for hearing.

Najib’s application, where he sought the court’s mandamus order to compel the government and six others to confirm the royal addendum’s existence to allow him to serve the remainder of his prison sentence on house arrest, is still at the leave stage.

He also named the AG, Home Ministry, commissioner general of the Prison Department, Federal Territories Pardons Board, Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), and the department’s Legal Affairs division director-general as the respondents in his application.

On Jan 6, in a 2-1 majority decision, the Court of Appeal remitted the case on Najib’s claim of the existence of an additional document - purportedly allowing him to serve the remainder of his six-year prison sentence under house arrest - to the High Court to be heard on its merits.

This decision overturned the High Court’s ruling on July 3 last year, which denied Najib’s leave application to commence a judicial review regarding the alleged additional document.

Najib is serving his jail sentence at Kajang Prison after failing his August 2022 appeal at the Federal Court over the RM42 million SRC International case.

He was sentenced to a 12-year jail term and a RM120 million fine, until the Pardons Board reduced his sentence to six years and lowered his fine to RM50 million on Feb 2 last year.

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