Breaking | Malaysia’s Najib Razak to be released from jail for house arrest

A Malaysian High Court judge ordered former prime minister Najib Razak to be released from jail for house arrest on Monday.

Najib, who has been in prison since 2022, had his 12-year jail sentence halved last year by a pardons board chaired by the country’s former king.

But he insists the monarch also issued an “addendum order” that converts his sentence to house arrest, and he has been seeking to compel the government to confirm the document’s existence and enforce its contents.

Government officials for months denied knowledge of its existence, though the former king’s office and a federal lawyer this year confirmed the royal document had been issued.

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