Kuala Lumpur: The main Malaysian Court on Monday, April 28, granted the prosecutor general to appeal a decision granted to former Prime Minister Najib Razak access to a document which, according to him, allows him to serve his remaining prison sentence.
Najib, imprisoned for his role in the scandal of several billion dollars 1MDB, continues a legal attempt to oblige the authorities to confirm the existence and to execute a royal ordinance which, according to him, was published last year within the framework of a forgiveness by the king of the time, which allows him to purge the rest of his sentence.
In a unanimous decision, a bench of the Federal Court of three members ruled that the Attorney General could appeal a decision of January of a lower court in favor of the attempt by Najib to access the alleged document, with the case which will be heard on July 1 and 2.
The former Prime Minister caused his 12 -year sentence to be reduced by half to forgiveness by King Allultan of Abdullah Ahmad Shah last year. Najib said that an “Addendum order” to forgiveness which had given him home detention was ignored by the authorities.
The former king's palace published a letter indicating that the document exists, but the ministry of the Malaysia law said that he had no trace of the latter, his Minister of the Interior denied knowledge and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said “we have not hidden anything”.
Najib was found guilty in 2020 of criminal violation of trust and abuse of power for having illegally received funds diverted from a unit of state investor 1-Malaysia Development Berhad. He is tried for corruption in several other cases linked to 1MDB and denies the reprehensible acts.
