Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has confirmed that the Pardons Board did not discuss the application filed by jailed former premier Najib Abdul Razak on Friday.
Zahid - who is also deputy prime minister - indicated that it would be discussed at a later date.
"On April 28 (Friday), as we know the (Najib) pardon agenda was not included as the Pardons Board believes there will be an appropriate time to include that in their agenda," he told reporters in Putrajaya today.
He also called for patience in waiting for any statements and developments from the Prime Minister's Department Legal Affairs Division which is the secretariat to the board.
The Legal Affairs Division is overseen by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said, who is also the Umno information chief.
Previously, Berita Harian had cited sources as saying that the Pardons Board did not hear Najib's application as it was only recently filed and needed to "wait for its turn".
On March 31, the five-judge panel of the Federal Court, in a 4-1 majority decision, rejected Najib's application to review his conviction for the RM42 million in the SRC International corruption case.
Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abdul Rahman Sebli chaired the panel of five judges which also included Federal Court judges Rhodzariah Bujang, Nordin Hassan and Vernon Ong Lam Kiat as well as Court of Appeal judge Abu Bakar Jais.
This verdict is in line with a previous decision on Aug 23 last year by a different Federal Court bench chaired by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat to uphold Najib's guilty verdict as well as a 12-year sentence and RM210 million fine. - Mkini
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