THE Court of Appeal today allowed Rosmah Mansor’s application for the temporary release of her passport so she may travel Singapore to visit her ill grandson.

Kamaludin Md Said, who chaired the three-judge panel, allowed the application as there was no objection from deputy public prosecutor Poh Yih Tinn.

Kamaludin said the court unanimously granted the order in terms.

Earlier, Rosmah’s lawyer Jagjit Singh told the court she was seeking leave for the release of her international passport so she may travel to Singapore to visit her daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren, one of whom is unwell.

He said she will be leaving for Singapore on Thursday and spend Hari Raya there before returning on May 5.

“We will file an undertaking to return her (Rosmah’s) passport (to the court) within one week of her return,” said Jagjit.

Poh suggested Rosmah return her passport on or before May 10, said a Bernama report.

Rosmah’s passport was impounded by the court in 2019 after she was charged with corruption. 

On September 1 last year, Rosmah was found guilty of one count of soliciting RM187.5 million and two counts of receiving bribes totalling RM6.5 million from Jepak Holdings Bhd former managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin.

The wife of jailed former prime minister Najib Razak is appealing against her conviction and sentence over the RM1.25 billion solar hybrid project for 369 rural schools in Sarawak.

Rosmah, 71, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on each charge, to be served concurrently. She was fined RM970 million, in default 30 years in jail.

The court however granted Rosmah a stay of execution of the prison sentence and fine, pending her appeal at the Court of Appeal. 

Rosmah’s appeal against her conviction, 10 years imprisonment and RM970 million fine for corruption involving the hybrid solar project for 369 rural schools in Sarawak is fixed for hearing at the Court of Appeal for four days beginning July 11.

Also representing Rosmah today were lawyers Akberdin Abdul Kader and Azrul Zulkifli Stork, reported Bernama. – March 21, 2023.