Malaysia seeks gag order on talk of jailed ex-PM's bid to reveal royal document

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — 

Malaysia's lawyer general's bureau is seeking a gag bid to prohibition nationalist treatment of erstwhile Prime Minister Najib Razak's judicial reappraisal assertion that a papers exists allowing him to service his remaining situation condemnation nether location arrest, according to authorities quality bureau Bernama.

Najib, jailed for his relation successful the multi-billion dollar 1MDB scandal, is pursuing a legal bid to compel authorities to corroborate the beingness of, and execute, an "addendum order" that helium said was issued past twelvemonth arsenic portion of a pardon by then-King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah, entitling him to service the remainder of his condemnation astatine home.

The contented has caused a immense disturbance successful Malaysia, with disgraced governmental heavyweight Najib insisting the erstwhile king's addendum bid was ignored by authorities erstwhile they announced the halving of his sentence past year.

The erstwhile king's palace has issued a missive saying the papers does exist. Yet Malaysia's law ministry said it has nary grounds of it, its location curate has denied knowledge, and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said "we did not fell anything."

Bernama connected Monday quoted Shamsul Bolhassan, lawman main of the chambers' civilian division, arsenic saying the gag bid petition had been filed to a court. The authoritative had antecedently said the lawsuit touched connected delicate issues, according to Bernama.

Najib was recovered blameworthy successful 2020 of transgression breach of spot and maltreatment of powerfulness for illegally receiving funds misappropriated from a portion of authorities capitalist 1Malaysia Development Berhad. He is connected proceedings for corruption successful respective different 1MDB-linked cases and denies wrongdoing.

Najib this period hailed arsenic "one measurement forward" the Court of Appeal's determination to overturn the dismissal of his effort to entree the document. The lawsuit volition spell backmost to tribunal to beryllium heard by different judge.