KUALA LUMPUR: Federal Territories (FT) Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa has denied that she hid anything regarding a royal addendum allowing former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to serve the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with FT associations involved in senior citizen care, Zaliha, who is also a member of the FT Pardons Board (FTPB), said: "I'm not the government spokesperson regarding this matter. I'm not the spokesperson for the Pardons Board."
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She had been asked to comment on a statement by former Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin that she and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said are “directly responsible” in the matter.
"I have heard... accusations towards me regarding whether I hid the addendum.
"I speak for myself. I'm not hiding anything. I don't want to say anything more," she said when met at Institut Latihan DBKL in Bandar Tun Razak.
Najib had claimed the existence of a royal addendum order allowing him to serve the remainder of his prison sentence in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case at home.
On Monday (Jan 6), the Court of Appeal allowed Najib’s appeal for leave to initiate a judicial review over the existence of the royal addendum.
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Najib’s case is being remitted back to the High Court for a substantive hearing.
He has named the Home Minister, the commissioner general of Prisons, the Attorney General, the FTPB, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), the director-general of the legal affairs at the Prime Minister’s Department, and the government as the first through seventh respondents.
In the notice of application, Najib sought a mandamus order that all of the respondents or one of them answer and verify the existence of the addendum order dated Jan 29 last year.
