The Court of Appeal today granted Rosmah Mansor's application for the temporary release of her passport enabling her to travel to Singapore to visit her daughter who is expected to give birth at the end of the month.
A panel of three judges - Hadhariah Syed Ismail, Azman Abdullah and Azmi Ariffin - allowed Rosmah's application.
This was after her lawyer Jagjit Singh told the court that his client needed to go to the republic to be with her eldest daughter, Nooryana Najwa Najib, who will give birth to her third child.
"My client requested her passport to enable her to go to Singapore from tomorrow until Aug 23, Aug 26 to Sept 6 and from Sept 9 to Oct 31.
“The prosecution did not object to this application," said the lawyer.
Deputy public prosecutor Poh Yih Tinn confirmed that the prosecution did not object to the application.
Rosmah filed the notice of motion on Aug 11 through Messrs Akberdin & Co to be with Nooryana who is due to give birth on Aug 28.
In the notice, the wife of former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak said she has never failed to turn up in court for proceedings without reason or reasonable grounds.
Fourth time
Rosmah said she will return to Malaysia to attend the appeal proceedings of her solar hybrid project corruption case.
Before this, the Court of Appeal had fixed Sept 18 for case management.
This is the fourth time Rosmah is applying for the temporary release of her passport to travel to Singapore.
The first was on Oct 15, 2021, to visit Nooryana who had delivered her second child, then on March 21 this year to see her daughter and grandchild and also on June 15 to visit Nooryana again.
Nooryana is married to Kazakhstan national Daniyar Kessikbaye and the couple reside in Singapore.
On Sept 1 last year, the High Court found Rosmah guilty of three corruption charges involving RM1.25 billion in connection with a hybrid solar project for schools in Sarawak.
The 71-year-old was sentenced to 10 years in jail on each charge to be served concurrently, which means she will only do 10 years in prison.
She was also fined RM970 million, in default 30 years in jail.
The High Court, however, granted Rosmah a stay of execution of her sentence pending an appeal at the Court of Appeal.
- Bernama
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