KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim refused to comment on calls for the Federal Territories Pardons Board to release its meeting minutes on whether an additional royal decree exists for jailed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to serve out his sentence at home.
“Did you listen to my speech?” was all that the Prime Minister said when reporters’ asked him about the matter as he was leaving an event at the World Trade Centre here Friday (Jan 10).
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Anwar had just delivered the keynote speech at the 73rd annual assembly of the Malaysian Youth Council (MBM).
Calls to release the minutes of the Pardons Board meeting have intensified following a Jan 6 court decision to allow Najib to challenge the government to state whether a decree or addendum exists which would allow him to serve out his six-year prison sentence under house arrest.
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Najib’s defence team claims that the addendum was part of the Pardons Board meeting in January last year during which his 12-year jail sentence was slashed to six and his RM210mil fine was reduced to RM50mil.
Najib is currently in prison after being found guilty in the case involving SRC International Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MBD).
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He is also currently on trial for other alleged wrong-doings that occurred in 1MDB.
PKR leader Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin has urged the Pardons Board to release its meeting minutes to put an end to the issue over Najib’s purported royal addendum.
Shamsul Iskandar said that the minutes will clarify the circumstances under which the house arrest addendum was issued by then Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah.
