Someone Lies – Legitimacy Of Najib’s Controversial Royal Addendum Will Be Next Fireworks

Someone Lies – Legitimacy Of Najib’s Controversial Royal Addendum Will Be Next Fireworks


January 6th, 2025 by financetwitter


Najib Razak has won a battle today (Jan 6) after the Court of Appeal granted him leave to pursue his legal bid for house arrest in a split 2-1 decision by a three-judge panel. The decision was arrived after Najib’s lawyers produced a purported letter from the Pahang Palace confirming the existence of a royal decree allowing him to serve the rest of his jail sentence at home.

But the biggest reason why the judges had ruled in favour of Najib was because there was no rebuttal from both Anwar government and the Pardons Board in regards to the existence of the alleged royal addendum dated Jan 29, 2024. This is the same argument in our previous article – Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s refusal to acknowledge or deny only means the document actually exists.

This means 71-year-old Najib, who was sentenced to 12 years’ jail in 2022 for corruption linked to the multibillion-dollar scandal involving state fund 1MDB, but was given a 50% discount by then King Sultan Abdullah of Pahang, could be released from Kajang Prison very soon. And you can bet the day Najib walks out will also be the same day people’s anger over Anwar administration will explode.


Anwar has no one to blame but himself if he becomes a 1-term prime minister. With new taxes, e-invoice system, scrapping of fuel subsidies, escalating cost of living and whatnot, it’s hard to see how his Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People’s Justice Party) could maintain the current 31 parliamentary seats in the next 16th General Election if Najib laughs all his ways to the luxury house arrest.

While Najib’s successful appeal today does not mean his house arrest is guaranteed, the fact that the Court of Appeal had ruled that the royal addendum exists and ordered a lower court – High Court – to hear the merits of the case, the chances are extremely high that Najib would win his case simply because a King’s order cannot be challenged, no matter how ridiculous or controversial it is.

Still, there will be incredible fireworks in the High Court – provided the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) does not deliberately screw up its own case to help Najib, the same way how UMNO president Zahid Hamidi and Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor were acquitted due to the prosecutors’ bizarre incompetence and lack of interest to send corrupt crooks to prison.


Obviously, someone has lied after the Court of Appeal’s decision today. It’s no longer about whether the royal addendum exists or not. The burning question is how did the Anwar government not have any information on the existence of this “house arrest addendum” issued by the then-16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King)?

Interestingly, at an afternoon press conference on the same day the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Najib, Malaysian Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution, whose ministry oversees Malaysia’s prisons, said 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.

Saifuddin said – “The order was signed by the then Malaysian King (Sultan Abdullah Ahmad) and witnessed by Federal Territories Minister Zaliha Mustafa. Two major decisions were made: reducing Najib’s jail sentence to end on Aug 23, 2028, and lowering the fine to RM50 million. If the fine remains unpaid, the jail sentence will be extended until Aug 23, 2029,”


“This is the letter received by the Prison Department, which does not mention anything about home arrest. It is important to clarify any misconceptions about the Home Ministry, especially the Prison Department, for not obeying the order. How can we execute an order that does not exist in the letter?” – said the Home Minister, a member of Anwar’s PKR party.

Assuming Mr Saifuddin did not lie, it could only mean two things – either his boss, Prime Minister and PKR president Anwar Ibrahim had given an instruction to hide the royal decree without informing the home minister, or the royal addendum did not actually exists even on the last day of Sultan Abdullah’s tenure as Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) on January 30, 2024.

So, how could the royal addendum dated Jan 29, 2024 suddenly exists today? There are two reasons for this alone. First, the document has been backdated and for obvious reason that it was a royal decree, Najib and his lawyers knew nobody dares to question its legality. That explains why it took prisoner Najib months after his royal pardon to suddenly claim the existence of this royal addendum.


It also explains why it took almost one year – Jan 5, 2025 – for Najib’s son Mohd Nizar Najib to tell all and sundry that he had received a letter from the Pahang palace’s comptroller confirming the existence of the so-called royal addendum allowing Najib to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest. Exactly why hadn’t Najib saw it urgent to raise the matter in February 2024?

Second, the document was not backdated but unenforceable simply because there isn’t any legal provision for a house detention, which also means the addendum was illegally and unconstitutionally issued by the monarch. This helps to explain why Anwar hid it in the first place, a super dumb decision which is boomerang and backfiring in the face of the moronic premier.

To make matters worse, the previous King might not have gone through the proper process or procedure by keeping the Pardons Board in the dark when the royal addendum was drafted, signed and issued to help crooked Najib. This explains why Home Minister Saifuddin was so clueless, confused and speechless with the sudden appearance of the document.


In the same breath, it also 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 addendum was issued through backdoor without the knowledge of the Pardons Board, leading to legitimacy issue.