Malaysian King grants conditional house arrest to jailed fmr PM Najib Razak | The World | ABC NEWS
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was a key figure in the country’s largest multi-billion dollar corruption scandal over 1MDB, could soon be released from jail on house arrest. The Malaysian pardons board held a meeting where the King granted the request for Najib to serve the remainder of his jail term at home.
Ibrahim Suffian is the program director at the Merdeka Center. He told ‘The World’ that this house arrest conditionally applies to only two of the three convictions, and that Najib is still waiting on the outcome of a third case which is currently undergoing an appeal.
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