PUTRAJAYA (Jan 8): Immediate-past attorney general Tan Sri Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh and his successor, Datuk Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar, are choosing to stay silent over the controversial purported ‘house arrest addendum’ related to imprisoned former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
When approached by the media at the Opening of the Legal Year in Putrajaya on Wednesday, Ahmad Terrirudin, who is now a Federal Court judge, chose to keep quiet, while Dusuki, when met separately, replied “No comment”.
Ahmad Terrirudin was the AG who was party to the Federal Territory Pardons Board meeting that sat on Jan 29 last year, which deliberated on Najib’s pardon.
Najib's counsel, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, has claimed that the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, had sent a letter to Ahmad Terrirudin on Jan 29, 2024, containing the purported addendum which allegedly allows Najib to serve the remaining of his prison sentence under house arrest.
The former prime minister was sentenced to 12 years' jail and fined RM210 million after being found guilty over seven counts of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power of SRC International Sdn Bhd funds.
However, his sentence was reduced to six years and the fine to RM50 million or in default another year’s jail for failing to pay.
Najib has alleged that the purported addendum given by Al-Sultan Abdullah had allowed him to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, and he filed a judicial review for the addendum to be fully produced and for it to be enforced.
He failed to gain leave (permission) at the High Court in July last year to initiate the judicial review.
However, on Monday, by a majority of two to one, the Court of Appeal allowed Najib’s appeal, and ordered the case to be reverted back to the High Court on Jan 13.