KUALA LUMPUR: Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has submitted an application to the Court of Appeal to temporarily retrieve her international passport once again.
Her lawyer Datuk Akberdin Abdul Kader confirmed the matter when contacted by media today.
Rosmah, in her application filed by way of motion on June 2, applied to retrieve her passport temporarily for four weeks, from June 6 to July 7, to visit daughter Nooryana Najwa Najib and her family in Singapore.
Previously, the wife of jailed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had succeeded twice in retrieving her passport temporarily to visit Nooryana in Singapore.
The first time Rosmah retrieved her passport temporarily was on October 15, 2021, when Nooryana was expecting her second child.
The second time was on March 21 this year to visit her grandson, who was sick at the time, and to also celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri with Nooryana and her family in Singapore.
"I was advised by my lawyer that the application to obtain the travel document was in order and the prosecution had no objection to it.
"On that basis, I humbly apply to the court for permission to allow my international passport to be taken by me so that I can use it to make a personal visit to visit my daughter and her family in Singapore," she stated.
This time, Rosmah, in her application, has promised to return the passport to the court immediately or at the latest a week after returning from Singapore.
Rosmah, 71, was charged with soliciting RM187.5 million from former Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin, through her then-aide Datuk Rizal Mansor, as an inducement to help the company secure the project.
She was also accused of two counts of receiving bribes totalling RM6.5 million from Saidi between 2016 and 2017.
Rosmah's case started on Feb 5, 2020 and High Court judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan ordered her to enter her defence against all charges on Feb 18, 2021.
Zaini found Rosmah guilty of all three charges on Sept 1, last year.
Rosmah later filed an appeal against the conviction through Messrs Akberdin & Co on Sept 2.