Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak has obtained greenlight from three judges for an extension of his temporary passport release for him to go to Singapore and give support to his expecting daughter there.
Three separate benches of the Kuala Lumpur High Court this morning allowed the accused’s application, namely judges Mohamed Zaini Mazlan, Collin Lawrence Sequerah, and Muhammad Jamil Hussin.
Deputy public prosecutors Mohd Ashrof Adrin Kamarul, Mohamad Mustaffa P Kunyalam and Shafiq Hasim did not raise any objections during the three separate proceedings.
Previously, it was reported that Najib sought the extension as he first needed to manage the BN party machinery for the Malacca state election on Nov 20, then the next day to go to Singapore to give support to Nooryana Najwa, who is expected to give birth in the island republic.
On Monday last week, the Court of Appeal allowed Najib’s temporary passport release application so he could be in Singapore to support Nooryana. The period given was from Oct 20 to Nov 22.
However, through the amended notice of motion before the Kuala Lumpur High Court, Najib was seeking his passport release period to include Nov 21 to Dec 6.
Other pending criminal cases
Besides his RM42 million SRC International corruption case, for which he had been convicted and sentenced (and is in the process of appeal before the Court of Appeal), Najib also has three other pending criminal cases before the three separate High Court judges in Kuala Lumpur.
Najib is undergoing trial for an RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption case before judge Sequerah and another trial before judge Zaini for alleged involvement in the amendment to 1MDB’s audit report.
The Pekan MP also has a pending case that has not gone to trial yet, involving an alleged criminal breach of trust of RM6.6 billion in government funds linked to International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) payments, before judge Jamil.
Recently, separate courts have also greenlit temporary passport release for three other prominent accused persons still undergoing trial for various criminal offences, namely Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor, his lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, and former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Shafee acted for Najib during today’s proceedings before the three separate benches of the Kuala Lumpur High Court. - Mkini
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