KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s appeals court docket granted on Monday a bid by jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to acquire a doc that he stated would permit him to serve the rest of his jail sentence at dwelling.
Najib, who was jailed over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, had appealed a decrease court docket determination final July that dismissed his bid to verify the existence of and execute a royal order that he stated would entitle him to accommodate arrest.
He has maintained an “addendum order” was issued by Malaysia’s former king accompanying a pardons board’s determination in February final yr to halve his jail sentence for graft within the 1MDB scandal to 6 years from 12. It’s unclear if the doc exists.
