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Zainur wants Bar Council to file a legal challenge against the Pardons Board's partial pardon for Najib ‘1MDB’ Razak
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Clear ‘confusion’ created by Malaysian Bar, Puad tells Zaliha, AG
-17 Mar 2024, 11:38 AM
Puad Zarkashi says the motion passed by the Bar at its annual general meeting suggests the pardons board had ‘acted unfairly’ in granting Najib Razak the reduced sentence.
Umno Supreme Council member Puad Zarkashi said there was nothing surprising about the motion passed by the Malaysian Bar to file a judicial review against Najib Razak’s commuted sentence as the professional body ‘is often biased and plays politics’. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: There is a need to clear the air over the “confusion” created by the Malaysian Bar in Najib Razak’s commuted sentence, says Umno Supreme Council member Puad Zarkashi.
The federal territories minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa and attorney-general Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh must address this issue properly, Puad said in a Facebook post.
He said the motion passed by the Bar in its annual general meeting yesterday suggested that the Federal Territories Pardons Board had “acted unfairly” in granting Najib the commuted sentence and that the matter is not the prerogative of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
Yesterday, the Malaysian Bar’s AGM approved a motion to file a legal challenge against the pardons board over the decision to halve the former prime minister’s jail sentence for his SRC International corruption conviction.
Former Malaysian Bar president Zainur Zakaria told FMT the motion was passed with an “overwhelming majority”.
Zainur, who submitted the motion for the Bar members’ deliberation, claimed that the pardons board had “acted ultra vires Article 42 of the Federal Constitution” in slashing Najib’s 12-year jail sentence to six years and reducing the RM210 million fine to RM50 million.
He was previously reported to have said that with Najib having only served one-and-a-half years of his jail sentence, the former prime minister’s application for a pardon should not have been processed and determined in the first place.
He further claimed that Najib had “never shown any remorse or contrition as to his involvement in the 1MDB affairs” and continued to claim that the court had not treated him fairly.
However, Puad said he was not surprised by the motion that was passed by the Malaysian Bar, as it “was often biased and played politics”.
“Najib didn’t apply for a reduced sentence – he had applied for a full pardon on grounds that he did not receive a fair trial.
“I challenge them (the Malaysian Bar) to respond to Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abdul Rahman Sebli’s dissenting judgment. He said Najib should have been acquitted after being denied a fair trial,” Puad said.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 12, 2024: Former Bar president Zainur Zakaria says the Federal Territories Pardons Board “acted ultra vires” of the Federal Constitution by slashing former premier Najib “1MDB” Razak’s jail term.
“He has only served one-and-a-half years of his jail sentence, and hence his application for a pardon ought not to have been processed and determined in the first place,” he said in his motion submitted for the Bar’s annual general meeting on Saturday (March 9).
The world’s disgraced and shameless biggest kleptocrat’s controversial partial pardon has been widely criticised and condemned by Malaysians on social media networks.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the matter:
Ex-Bar president wants Bar Council to challenge Najib’s commuted sentence
-12 Mar 2024, 05:04 PM
Lawyer Zainur Zakaria says the Federal Territories Pardons Board ‘acted ultra vires’ of the Federal Constitution by slashing the former prime minister’s jail term.
Ex-Malaysian Bar president Zainur Zakaria said former prime minister Najib Razak had only served one-and-a-half years of his jail sentence and as such, his application for a pardon should not have been processed.
KUALA LUMPUR: A former Malaysian Bar president wants the incoming Bar Council members to file a legal challenge against the Pardons Board over its decision to halve Najib Razak’s jail sentence for his SRC International corruption conviction.
Zainur Zakaria, who was president from 1993 to 1995, claimed that the Federal Territories Pardons Board “acted ultra vires under Article 42 of the Federal Constitution” in slashing the former prime minister’s 12-year jail sentence to six years as well as reducing the RM210 million fine to RM50 million.
“He has only served one-and-a-half years of his jail sentence, and hence his application for a pardon ought not to have been processed and determined in the first place,” he said in his motion submitted for the Bar’s annual general meeting on Saturday.
The Federal Court had in 2022 affirmed Najib’s conviction for abuse of power, criminal breach of trust, and money laundering for RM42 million of SRC International funds. A review against the SRC International case was also rejected on a majority decision.
Zainur further claimed that Najib had “never shown any remorse or contrition as to his involvement in the 1MDB affairs” and continued to claim that the court had not treated him fairly.
Meanwhile, lawyer Abhilaash Subramaniam is calling for the incoming Bar Council members to demand that the government not to proceed with certain proposed constitutional amendments on citizenship.
He said that “regressive amendments” might continue to create stateless people in Malaysia.
“The suggested amendment seeks to place foundlings under the discretionary authority of the home minister for citizenship determination, unjustly imposing the onus of proving parentage on the child,” Abhilaash added.
Last week, former deputy law and institutional reform minister Ramkarpal Singh said the proposed amendment would deny foundlings automatic citizenship if passed, and force them into a lengthy and uncertain bureaucratic registration process.
Apart from Ramkarpal, Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Karim of PKR, also criticised the proposed amendments and vowed to oppose it. Both Hassan and Ramkarpal are lawyers.
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