PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Razak plans to sue former Attorney General Tan Sri Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh for contempt of court, accusing him of concealing a royal addendum order that purportedly allows Najib to serve his prison sentence under house arrest.
Najib’s lead counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, announced his client’s instructions to file the contempt action against Ahmad Terrirudin, who now serves as a Federal Court judge.
“The contempt action will be filed by tomorrow (Feb 13) or latest by Friday (Feb 14). The papers are ready but we want to go through it carefully,” Muhammad Shafee stated during a press conference yesterday.
The senior lawyer referenced Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s statement regarding the addendum as grounds for the contempt action.
It was reported that on Jan 11, Anwar confirmed the then AG received a letter concerning the royal addendum, which ordered Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence in house arrest.
However, Anwar noted that after the letter was received, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong changed, and the AG submitted the letter to Istana Negara for the newly-appointed Agong, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, to decide.
“The government must be stating things in total candidness or candour,” Muhammad Shafee said.
On Jan 6, Najib’s judicial review application linked to the addendum order was remitted to the High Court by the Court of Appeal for a hearing on its merits.
A case management will be held before a deputy registrar on March 11.
In the judicial review case, he named the Home Minister, the Commissioner General of Prisons, the AG, 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 to seventh respondents, respectively.
