PUTRAJAYA: Former attorney general Tan Sri Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh has kept mum on the issue of royal addendum order relating to Datuk Seri Najib Razak's house arrest.
Ahmad Terrirudin, who is now a Federal Court judge, 'escaped' a group of journalists at the Opening of the Legal Year 2025 who sought for his comments on a letter from the royal palace.
The letter was purportedly addressed to him, in his capacity as the AG, stating an addendum order that would allow Najib to spend the remainder of his prison sentence imposed in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case under house arrest.
Ahmad Terrirudin did not answer and walked briskly past the group of journalists before heading towards the exit of Putrajaya International Convention Centre.
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Ahmad Terrirudin served as the 12th AG from Sept 6, 2023, to Nov 11, 2024.
When met separately by the press at the same event, Terrirudin's successor, Attorney General Datuk Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar, also declined to respond.
"I will not comment," Mohd Dusuki said.
On Monday (Jan 6), the Court of Appeal allowed Najib's appeal for leave to initiate judicial review over the existence of the royal addendum.
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The case is remitted back to the High Court for a substantive hearing.
Najib filed the application for leave for judicial review on April 1, 2024.
He named the Home Minister, the Commissioner General of Prisons, the Attorney General, the Federal Territories Pardons Board, the Minister at the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform), director-general of the legal affairs at the Prime Minister's Department and the government as the first until the seventh respondents respectively.
In the notice of application, Najib sought a mandamus order that all of the respondents or one of them to answer and verify the existence of the addendum order dated Jan 29, 2024.
On July 4, 2024, the Kuala Lumpur High Court dismissed Najib's application for leave, citing hearsay in supporting affidavits, prompting Najib to appeal the decision.
