The High Court ruled in July of last year that documents supporting Najib’s say were speculation and therefore unacceptable as proof.
Judge Amarjeet Singh had noted that Malaysia’s deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and another senior official from Najib’s group had documents that claimed they had seen a copy of the imperial order as speculation and that the government had no legal authority to listen to the request.
The former king had halved Najib’s 12-year jail term and cut his RM210 million ( US$ 46.5 million ) fine to RM50 million as one of his last official tasks before stepping down on Jan 30 last year.
Najib, 71, was found guilty of misappropriating RM42 million from SRC International and is already serving time in the state of Selangor’s Kajang jail.
The charges against Najib, who served as prime minister from 2009 to 2018, involved the transfer of RM42 million from SRC International, a former subsidiary of state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad ( 1MDB), into his personal bank accounts in 2014 and 2015.
In July 2020, the High Court found him guilty of three counts of unlawful breach of trust, three of money laundering, and one count of abuse of power, and sentenced him to 12 years in prison and a RM210 million fine. Prior to that, the former ruler reduced Najib’s prison time and good.
The former prime minister is accused of being one of the causes of his coalition’s defeat in the 2018 elections by the financial incident, which is said to be one of the causes of the previous prime minister’s loss of power.