Lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah today obtained the court’s greenlight for the temporary release of his passport so he could fly to New York to manage the settling in of his son’s higher education there.
Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Muhammad Jamil Hussin this morning allowed the application for the temporary release of the accused’s passport from today until Dec 3.
The judge allowed it after no objection was raised by deputy public prosecutor S Nithia.
“After hearing the applicant’s application and affidavit in support of the application, and having read the affidavit in support, submission and that the respondent (prosecution) has no objection against the application, I allow the application per the notice of motion,” Jamil ruled.
Previously, Shafee surrendered his passport to the court as part of bail conditions in his ongoing trial for alleged money laundering involving RM9.5 million received from former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.
Recently, separate courts have also greenlighted temporary passport release for three prominent accused persons still undergoing trial for various criminal offences, namely Najib, his wife Rosmah Mansor, and former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
According to a copy of Shafee’s notice of motion, Shafee seeks temporary passport access as he needs to fly to New York on Oct 27 and be there until Nov 30.
The lawyer contended that he needed to meet his son there and help in the settling in of his son’s higher education at the New School Parson, New York, US.
Shafee seeks an order for “the applicant’s international passport be returned temporarily so the applicant could meet his son and help settle in (the son’s) higher education at the New School Parson, New York, United States of America, from Oct 27, 2021 to Nov 30, 2021”.
The lawyer said that the passport needed to be temporarily returned to him the latest on Oct 25, so he could make preparations to fly from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to New York on Oct 27.
Shafee also promised to return the passport to the court latest by Dec 3 after he has returned from New York to Malaysia.
Lawyer Wee Yeong Kang represented Shafee during today’s High Court matter. - Mkini
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