PUTRAJAYA: The claims made by former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak that an addendum in a recent Royal Pardon granted him to serve his remaining jail sentence under house arrest was not discussed during the Cabinet meeting today.
The matter was confirmed by Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil, who is the spokesman for the unity government.
"It (claims made by Najib) was not discussed during the (Cabinet) meeting," Fahmi told reporters here today.
It was reported that Najib via his counsel from Messrs. Shafee & Co. has filed a judicial review at the High Court recently to compel the government to produce the impugned addendum dated Jan 29.
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.
Najib claimed that former Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, had granted him permission to serve his remaining jail sentence under house arrest.
The former prime minister claimed it was part of the then King's addendum order but has been kept silent by the government since January this year.
Najib in his affidavit claimed on Jan 29 that the then King ordered that the applicant's (Najib) imprisonment be reduced to six years and the fine reduced to RM50 million (main order).