KOTA BARU: Kelantan Umno wants the unity government to come clean on the "supplementary order" purportedly issued by then Yang di-Pertuan Agong al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah allowing Datuk Seri Najib Razak to serve the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest.
State Umno liaison chairman Datuk Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub said the people deserved to hear the government's stand and legal explanation on the matter. This, he said, was important so that any dispute would be put to rest.
"If it is true that the government had refused to implement the 'addendum order', Putrajaya will be perceived as manipulating the (former) king's decree.
"The government must answer the people over the alleged supplementary order," he said in a statement last night.
The deputy prime minister claimed that the document was shown to him by former Selangor Umno treasurer Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz at his house near Country Heights in Kajang, Selangor, on Jan 30.
Zahid said this in support of an affidavit dated April 9 relating to Najib's judicial review application to compel the government to produce the document.
He said Tengku Zafrul showed him a copy of the addendum order on his phone, which he personally photographed or scanned from an original copy as shown to him by Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.
On Jan 29, Najib, the former Pekan member of parliament, filed an application to compel the government to produce the document, which he said was not revealed by the authorities.
He named the home minister, Prison Department commissioner-general, attorney-general, 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 his lawyers had requested an original copy or a copy of the order from Kajang Prison administration, but he had yet to receive a response.
He also claimed that the subsequent inaction by the home minister and Prison Department commissioner-general to execute the said order was irrational, unreasonable, illegal and arbitrary, which was against the Federal Constitution.
Najib was initially sentenced to 12 years' jail and fined RM210 million after being found guilty of abuse of power and criminal breach of trust involving RM42 million from SRC International, a former 1MDB subsidiary.
On Feb 2, the Federal Territories Pardons Board announced the reduction of Najib's jail term to six years and his fine to RM50 million.