KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak was allowed to file two additional affidavits to support his judicial review application related to an addendum order by the previous King allowing him to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.
The affidavit involves support affirmed by the Pahang Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail, as well as statements by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the PKR 25th Anniversary Convention in Shah Alam last April.
The former prime minister's lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah when met at the court complex here said Judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh made the decision during a proceeding which was held in his chambers today.
"Due to the excess of documents involving affidavits, applications, and arguments, it requires time.
"Therefore, the judge has adjourned the case to July 3 for a decision on my client's application for judicial review challenging the existence of the addendum order.
"The relevant affidavits have been accepted by the court, so they will be considered, and the court will decide whether to grant judicial review or not," he said in a packed press conference.
Meanwhile, Senior Federal Counsel Shamsul Bolhassan said that the Attorney-General's Chambers objected to the filing of the two additional affidavits as it was made at the last minute.
"However, the court allowed the affidavit, and it will be considered in the decision for the judicial review on July 3," he said.
Wan Rosdy in his affidavit said that Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz had told him of the existence of the document dated Jan 29.
The Pahang Menteri Besar said Tengku Zafrul had on Jan 30 told him that the former King had issued a pardon application decision which halved Najib's 12-year jail sentence and reduced his fine to RM50 million.
Najib, in his second affidavit dated May 23 had cited Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's speech at the recently concluded PKR special convention to bolster his claims regarding the existence of the addendum order.
The same court on May 2, dismissed Tengku Zafrul's bid to file his own affidavit to correct "factual errors" in another affidavit, which claimed that former Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, granted house arrest to Najib.
It was previously reported that Tengku Zafrul filed the application to enable him to submit an affidavit addressing the "factual inaccuracies" in Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's affidavit supporting Najib's case.
The Umno president had claimed that Tengku Zafrul showed him a copy of the addendum order on his phone on Jan 30, which he personally photographed or scanned from an original copy as shown to him by the former King.
On Jan 29, the Federal Territories Pardons Board, which the then King presided over, halved Najib's 12-year jail sentence for abuse of power and criminal breach of trust in the SRC International case, and reduced his RM210 million fine to RM50 million.
Najib in his judicial review application to the High Court on April 1, claimed the then King issued an addendum order — also on Jan 29 — allowing him to serve the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest.
He named the Home Minister, Prison Department commissioner general, Attorney-General (AG), Federal Territories Pardons Board, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform), Legal Affairs Division director-general, and the government as respondents.