KUALA LUMPUR: The Umno Supreme Council meeting today discussed the addendum order granting house arrest to the former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
"We did discuss that during the meeting, but I cannot comment on it," said the party's supreme council member Datuk Seri Mohd Sharkar Shamsudin when met by reporters after the meeting.
"Let the court decide (on a leave application by Najib to challenge the existence of an addendum order). If I were to comment, it would be a contempt of court."
The meeting was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
On Jan 29, the Federal Territories Pardons Board, which the then King, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, presided over, halved Najib's 12-year jail sentence for abuse of power and criminal breach of trust in the SRC International case, and reduced his RM210 million fine to RM50 million.
Najib in his judicial review application to the High Court on April 1, claimed that Al-Sultan Abdullah issued an addendum order– also on Jan 29– allowing him to serve the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest.
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.
On April 17, Zahid had confirmed the existence of an addendum order from the former King allowing Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.
Zahid claimed the impugned document was shown to him by former Selangor Umno treasurer Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz at his house near Country Heights in Kajang on Jan 30.
Zahid, who is also the Rural and Regional Development minister, said this in his supporting affidavit dated April 9 in Najib's judicial review application to compel the government to produce the impugned document.
