KUALA LUMPUR – Datuk Seri Najib Razak will find out sooner whether the Royal Addendum can be applied to allow him to serve the remainder of his prison sentence at home, after the decision date was brought forward to December 22.
According to the former prime minister’s special officer, A. Lufti Azhar, the decision will be delivered at 9am.
Previously, the High Court had scheduled January 5 to decide whether the addendum could be enforced for the former Pekan MP.
The new date was fixed by Justice Alice Loke Yee Ching after hearing submissions from the legal team led by Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah and Senior Federal Counsel Shamsul Bolhassan, who represented the government.
The revised date was confirmed by Senior Federal Counsel Shamsul Bolhassan to Malay Mail.
On August 13, the Federal Court sent the case back to the High Court for a full hearing on its merits before a new judge after dismissing the Attorney General’s application to appeal the Court of Appeal’s earlier ruling on the addendum.
Najib, 72, is seeking a mandamus order requiring the respondents to provide an official response confirming the existence of an additional document dated January 29 last year.
He named the Home Minister, the Prisons Commissioner-General, the Attorney General, the Pardons Board for the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), the Director-General of the Legal Affairs Division of the Prime Minister’s Department and the Malaysian Government as respondents.
The former Pekan MP is also seeking an order that, if such a document exists, all respondents or any one of them must enforce it immediately, including transferring him from Kajang Prison to his residence in Kuala Lumpur to serve the remainder of his sentence at home.
Najib has been serving his sentence at Kajang Prison since August 23, 2022, after being convicted of misappropriating RM42 million belonging to SRC International Sdn Bhd.
The High Court initially sentenced him to 12 years’ imprisonment and a RM210 million fine, a decision that was upheld by both the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court.
He later filed a petition for royal pardon on September 2, 2022, which resulted in a decision by the Pardons Board to reduce his jail term from 12 to six years and his fine from RM210 million to RM50 million. – November 25, 2025