KUALA LUMPUR – Datuk Seri Najib Razak has also applied to the courts for a temporary release of his passport to enable him to go to Singapore to visit his daughter Nooryana Najwa who is about to give birth.
Najib’s lawyer Nur Syahirah Hanapiah was quoted by Malay Mail as confirming that her client had filed the application yesterday.
“That is correct,” the lawyer said when contacted by Malaysiakini today.
Nur Syahirah said that the Court of Appeal is in the process of sealing the filed documents and that the court is set to hear the application on Monday next week.
On Tuesday, Najib’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor applied for her passport to be temporarily released for more than a month in order to travel out of the country.
Earlier today, Rosmah got her passport back temporarily after the high court here allowed her to go to Singapore to visit her pregnant daughter.
The order was granted by judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan after hearing the application from Rosmah’s lawyers while the prosecution did not object, reported Malay Mail.
“The applicant’s passport is to be returned to her on October 15, today itself, and must be returned on or before December 6, with the condition that the applicant can only leave the country to Singapore from October 22, and must return to Malaysia on or before November 21,” he was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, Nur Syahirah explained that Najib’s defence team filed the passport-related application at the Court of Appeal because his appeal against his conviction and sentencing in the RM42 million SRC International case is still pending there.
However, she did not reveal the specific time period that Najib is seeking for the Court of Appeal to allow him to fly to Singapore and then return to Malaysia, reported Malaysiakini.
Previously, when Najib was first charged over the SRC case in July 2018, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ordered him to surrender his two passports pending disposal of the case.
On May 18, a three-person Court of Appeal bench chaired by judge Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil reserved its decision after 15 days of hearing Najib’s appeal.
When contacted, an officer attached to the Palace of Justice confirmed that the hearing of Najib’s passport-related application is set to proceed before the Court of Appeal on Monday.
Checks on the online cause list at ecourtservices.kehakiman.gov.my listed Najib’s application for hearing before the Court of Appeal at 9am on Monday. – The Vibes, October 15, 2021
