00:00The meeting minutes of the Federal Territories Pardons Board concerning its deliberations
00:06on Najib Razak were declassified in January, says Law and Institutional Reform Minister
00:11Azalina Uthman Syed.
00:13In a written parliamentary reply to Kepung MP Lim Lip Eng, Azalina said this was based
00:19on feedback received from the Legal Affairs Division of the Prime Minister's Department.
00:25Last year, Najib initiated court proceedings over an alleged addendum allowing him to serve
00:29the remainder of his jail sentence under house arrest.
00:32The appeal was later heard on January 6, when the Court of Appeal granted Najib leave to
00:37begin a judicial review.
00:40In January, Federal Territories Minister Dr. Zaliha Mustafa had dismissed calls for the
00:45FTPB to make public its deliberations on Najib's pardon application.
00:50Zaliha, a member of FTPB, said the board's meeting minutes were confidential and accessible
00:56only to its members.
00:58On February 2 last year, the Pardons Board announced that Najib's prison sentence had
01:02been halved from 12 years to six, and his fine reduced from RM210 million to RM50 million.
01:10Natasha Bust, FMT News.
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