From saying he didn’t know Jho Low to insisting no money had lost from 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Bhd) sovereign funds, and from pretending to be shocked over US$681 million found in his personal bank accounts to claiming he had been scammed by partner-in-crime Jho Low, former Prime Minister Najib Razak has never failed to entertain the 34 million Malaysians.
Amusingly, he had no problem spending the money banked into his private accounts, despite screaming that he had no idea how millions of dollars ended up there. He initially claimed he didn’t know Jho Low, until a photograph of them aboard a luxury yacht emerged. He insisted no money was lost with 1MDB, but a mind-boggling RM50.75 billion of debt has been established.
In fact, the drama queen said he was able to verify his signatures on some photocopied documents, but on other incriminating photocopied documents, he conveniently could not recognise his own signatures. For some weird reasons, crooked Najib, who was also the finance minister, had blocked his deputy from recovering RM3.6 billion frozen in Switzerland.
Mr Najib has again generously shared a great joke on Friday (10 Jan, 2025) before the weekend begins. Under cross-examination by the prosecution in his corruption trial involving RM2.28 billion of the infamous 1MDB scandal, the disgraced former premier said he had no idea how the Saudi royalty obtained his personal bank account number to transfer millions of dollars to him.
As expected, he points fingers at Jho Low, saying it could be the fugitive businessman who may have shared his banking details with the Saudis. This is the only case on planet Earth where a scammer tried to scam a prime minister by sharing the victim’s banking information with the Al-Saud royal family so that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would be crazy enough to give away US$681 million.
If only Jho Low had shared my bank account number with the Saudi royal family, Najib would not have found guilty and sent to prison. But unlike the 1MDB scandal, where the Saudi King Abdullah is already dead and cannot testify, why hasn’t Sultan Abdullah of Pahang stepped forward to help Najib in the controversial royal addendum to allow him serve the remainder of his prison sentence under house arrest?
Following a declaration from Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution, whose ministry oversees Malaysia’s prisons, that the Pahang Palace did not communicate the royal addendum to the Prison Department, therefore the department could not carry out the home arrest order, the secretariat for the Federal Territories Pardons Board has similarly denied the existence of any additional document or royal addendum.
In a statement issued on the same day Najib told all and sundry his hilarious Friday joke, the Prime Minister’s Department’s Legal Affairs Division, which acts as the board’s secretariat, said – “We confirm that no additional documents or addendum have been found in the official files or records, nor have we received any official notification or instructions from Istana Negara regarding this matter,”
With the latest denial from the Pardons Board, it becomes clearer how the so-called royal addendum was not only an afterthought document as we had previously published, but also was illegal and unconstitutional, therefore un-enforceable. It was drafted, signed and issued by the previous King for no valid reasons whatsoever except to help Najib to serve his jail sentence luxuriously in his bungalow.
Let’s look at the timeline of the document’s trail. The Pardons Board rushed to meet on January 29, 2024, the last official day before Sultan Abdullah’s tenure as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) ended on January 30, 2024. Originally sentenced to 12 years in jail and fined RM210 million, Najib’s jail time has been halved to 6 years and the fine reduced by 75% by the board that was chaired by the King on that day.
It would take a few days later on 2 February, 2024 for the Pardons Board to “reluctantly” announce the highly unpopular decision to cut the crook’s jail sentence by 50%. Strangely, it would take Najib a few months later to file for a judicial review on April 1, 2024 to compel the government to execute the dubious royal addendum, of which its existence was never known prior.
The burning question is why Najib kept quiet for two months? He could scream about the royal decree for 60 days between February and April, yet he chose to stay behind the bars and enjoyed prison food rather than going back home. On July 4, 2024, the Kuala Lumpur High Court dismissed Najib’s application for leave, citing hearsay in supporting affidavits.
Najib’s son – Nizar Najib – then scrambled to produce a letter purportedly from the Pahang Royal Household, allegedly verifying the existence of a purported addendum dated January 29, 2024. However, that letter was from the Pahang Royal Household comptroller, Ahmad Khirrizal Ab Rahman, and not from the Sultan Abdullah himself. But something weirder happened.
Nizar said that the comptroller met him privately at the Hyatt Hotel in Kuantan on January 4, 2025 to deliver the letter. Not only the letter was delivered by a third party, but it was not actually the original copy of the royal addendum. Worse, it merely verified the existence of the addendum, but not the addendum itself. So, why all the secrecy about the addendum that the sultan can’t reveal it to save everyone the agony of speculating?
At best, the so-called royal addendum dated January 29, 2024 was issued only after the Pardons Board had concluded its meeting on the last day of Sultan Pahang serving as the King. This explains why the Pardons Board has announced today the non-existence of any additional document or royal addendum in its official files or records, which is also consistent with the home ministry’s statement.
At worst, the dubious royal addendum might have been backdated to January 29, 2024 to falsely create a perception that it was issued before the Sultan Pahang’s reign as 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong ended. This explains why Najib and his lawyers had been silent on the matter till two months later. Either way, it’s an afterthought to produce the addendum.
An addendum itself is an additional material or appendix to a main document or letter. So, during the Pardons Board meeting on January 29, 2024 chaired by then-King Sultan Abdullah of Pahang, the main course of business was the 50% discount on Najib’s 12-year jail sentence. The meeting agenda to allow Najib to serve the remainder of his prison sentence under house arrest did not arise at all.
On Monday (January 6, 2025), the Court of Appeal allowed Najib’s appeal to initiate judicial review over the existence of the royal addendum. Make no mistake – this only allows Najib a fair opportunity to prove not only the existence of the royal addendum, but also to prove the legality, constitutionality and enforceability of the document. Just because it exists does not mean it’s legally enforceable.
That explains why the current King Sultan Ibrahim of Johor has issued two decrees recently – one through the AGC and another directly from the Palace – that any request for prisoners, including former prime minister Najib Razak, to serve their sentences under house arrest must be submitted (again) to the Pardons Board, which is chaired by the current King.
If indeed Sultan Abdullah’s royal addendum was legal, constitutional and enforceable, why would Sultan Ibrahim go to all the trouble of issuing new decrees to Najib to re-apply again, emphasizing that it must go through the Pardons Board? The only explanation is the additional document was issued through backdoor without the knowledge of the Pardons Board, leading to legitimacy issue.
The biggest problem now is finding a scapegoat without humiliating the previous monarch, who appears to have hastily and recklessly issued the royal addendum without a proper consultation and advice from both Pardons Board and the Attorney-General’s Chambers. If only they can blame the delivery company Lalamove, postman or the office boy for the screw-up.
But even if the addendum has not been backdated, it was not logically possible for the Pardons Board to approve it on the same date – January 29, 2024 – that it had approved the heavily discounted jail sentence for Najib. One thing that the previous King cannot change is that the document is an “addendum”, which means it can only be discussed, approved and enforced upon from February 2024 onwards.
Even if the monarchs – both previous and current Kings – together with Anwar administration conspired and colluded with Najib to falsely insert the addendum into the Pardons Board’s minutes to make it legal, there is still one huge problem – there isn’t any provision for a house arrest till today. That’s why the spineless PM Anwar Ibrahim is scrambling to create a new law to facilitate a house detention specially designed for the crook.
Worse, because Mr Anwar has no balls to stop the monarch from bulldozing the partial royal pardon from the beginning, his government will now get all the blames regardless whether Najib will eventually walk out of Kajang Prison or not. The monarch’s reputation has been tainted whilst Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan will lose tons of votes because they were trying to save one crook – Najib Razak.
More importantly, Sultan Ibrahim’s decree also means the King has no absolute power to issue a royal addendum without consulting the Pardons Board. Otherwise, the monarch would have granted Najib a full pardon instead of a partial pardon without giving two hoots about the board. But for obvious reason, Najib’s game plan is to argue that the King has the absolute power.
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January 10th, 2025 by financetwitter
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How come no one from Umno ever stage a protest on Najib stealing billions from the national coffer? Stealing and corrupt if convicted by Najib are alright and those protectors of Islam can tolerate this but not on suggestion that Halal certification should not be mandatory for eateries? These people make a bad name for Islam. They are the ones should be imprisoned for not following the Prophet’s teachings!