Earlier today, the High Court set aside its previous order discharging Najib Razak upon payment of a RM50 million fine and issued a new order allowing him to serve the remainder of his prison sentence in the SRC International case under house arrest.KUALA LUMPUR: Najib Razak’s lawyer Shafee Abdullah says only the courts have the authority to draft orders in criminal matters.
He was responding to political commentator Liyana Marzuki’s claim that his firm, Shafee & Co, was responsible for drafting the order of discharge issued following the payment of the RM50 million fine to allow Najib to serve the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest.
“In criminal matters, lawyers do not draft such orders. They are always drafted by the court,” he said at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today.
