High Court sets Jan 5 to decide Najib's judicial review on house arrest addendum

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The Kuala Lumpur High Court has fixed Jan 5, next year, for decision in Datuk Seri Najib Razak's judicial review on an addendum order that he claimed would allow him to serve his prison sentence under house arrest.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5985rswn  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Kuala Lumpur High Court has set January 5th next year to deliver its decision on Datuk

00:07Seri Najib Razak's judicial review regarding an alleged addendum order which he claims would allow

00:13him to serve his prison sentence under house arrest. Justice Alice Lok fixed the date after

00:19hearing submissions from both parties on Monday. Earlier, Najib's lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafi

00:25Abdullah and senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhasan presented their arguments during the

00:31hearing. On August 13th, the federal court upheld a two-to-one majority ruling by the Court of Appeal

00:38which ordered Najib's judicial review application to be remitted to the High Court for a full hearing.

00:44Najib has named seven respondents including the Home Minister, the Prison's Commissioner-General,

00:50the Attorney-General, the Federal Territories' Pardons Board and the government.

00:54He is seeking a mandamus order compelling the respondents to confirm the existence of the

01:00alleged addendum order dated January 29th, 2024. Najib is currently serving his sentence

01:07after being found guilty of abuse of power, criminal breach of trust and money laundering

01:13involving 42 million ringgit from SRC International. In February last year, the Pardons Board reduced his

01:2012-year jail term to six years and lowered his 210 million ringgit fine to 50 million ringgit.

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