Najib, Rosmahs lawyers file complaint over leaked affidavit

Salehuddin speaks with reporters before meeting with the Mohd Zabidin today. Picture by Jack Ooi

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wifes lawyers today officially lodged a complaint to trial judge Datuk Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah over a news report published on their clients application to skip the Sodomy II trial.

A news portal had earlier this week reported excerpts of the Prime Minister and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansors application to set aside the subpoena served to them to testify in the trial.

But the contents of Najibs affidavit and that of his wifes remain unknown as their lawyers said they have not been instructed to reveal them.

One of the lawyers, Datuk Salehuddin Saidin, said they had informed the judge of this in chambers earlier this morning.

We have received instructions not to reveal the contents of the application until it is revealed in court. Until then we cannot reveal them.

I do not know how some of the press received and reported the contents of the application and affidavit, Salehuddin told reporters here today.

Both Najib and Rosmah were subpoenaed last month after they refused to take part in closed-door interviews.

Although Najib and Rosmah had turned up at the High Court during interviews by the opposition leaders lawyers, they said they would keep mum unless the court issued subpoenas instructing them to do otherwise.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahims defence team has insisted the prime minister and his wife are relevant witnesses for the opposition leaders ongoing Sodomy II trial.

Former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan had accused the PKR de facto leader of sodomising him at the upmarket Desa Damansara Condominium in Damansara Heights here on June 26, 2008.

The court will he! ar Najib and Rosmahs application to skip the trial on Monday afternoon.