KUALA LUMPUR: Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail today claimed that he was told by Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz that the previous Yang di-Pertuan Agong had issued an addendum order which allowed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to serve the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest.
However, Wan Rosdy, who is also Pahang Menteri Besar, said he does not have a copy of addendum dated Jan 29 this year because of the secrecy laws.
Wan Rosdy 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.
The decision pertains to Najib's abuse of power and criminal breach of trust in the SRC International case.
He said Tengku Zafrul had also said there was an addendum, along with the first decision, that ordered Najib to immediately serve his jail term at home and not at any prison.
He said on the early evening of Jan 30, he had attended a meeting at the home of Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi at Country Heights Kajang along with several other Umno leaders.
"I briefed them about what Tengku Zafrul told me about the existence of the addendum.
"Ahmad Zahid took note of the matter and he told me that Tengku Zafrul had also informed him about the same thing.
"He also said he had read the addendum which Tengku Zafrul showed him," he said in his affidavit to support Najib's leave for judicial review relating to the addendum filed on May 21 via Tetuan Shafee & Co.
In the document, Wan Rosdy said he truly believed that there was basis to Najib's application for judicial review.
He said this was because the seven respondents had refused to answer or confirm the existence of the addendum as decreed by the former King.
"The respondents refused to implement or enforce the addendum. They also refused to give an original copy or a copy of the pardon decision and the addendum, as decreed by the former King," he said.
The seven respondents in Wan Rosdy's affidavit were the home minister, Prisons commissioner-general, attorney-general, the Pardons Board for Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform), the director-general of legal affairs bureau in the Prime Minister's Department and the government.
However, a document showed the Attorney-General's Chambers, had on May 23, objected to Najib's application to file Wan Rosdy's affidavit as it came very late in the judicial review proceedings.
A legal representative said the Rules of Court 2012 does not permit late filings as the the parties' oral submissions had been made in court on Apr 17 and July 5 had been fixed for the decision on the leave application for judicial review.
On April 1, 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.
Hence, Najib via his counsel filed a judicial review at the High Court recently to compel the government to produce the impugned addendum dated Jan 29.