Decision date in Najib's bid for house arrest brought forward to Dec 22

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The Kuala Lumpur High Court has brought forward the decision date in former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's bid to serve the remainder of his prison sentence under house arrest  Justice Alice Loke expedited the ruling to Dec 22, moving it up from the previously scheduled Jan 5 date.   Read more at https://shorturl.at/s63Rt  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The KL High Court has brought forward the decision date

00:04in former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's bid

00:07to serve the remainder of his prison sentence under house arrest.

00:12Justice Alice Locke expedited the ruling to December 22,

00:16moving it up from the previously scheduled January 5 date.

00:20The change came during a case management session on Tuesday.

00:24Najib's legal team at Shafi and Company

00:26had written to the court requesting the earlier date,

00:30arguing that an addendum order allegedly granting house arrest

00:34was issued on January 29 last year

00:36and should have been implemented immediately.

00:39The lawyers pointed to instructions

00:40from former Chief Judge of Malaya Justice Hasna Mohamed Hashim,

00:45who had directed that the matter be resolved within one month.

00:48They also noted that based on a federal court order from August 13,

00:52the proceedings should have concluded by September 14.

00:56In their submission, Najib's legal team also emphasized

01:00that the 72-year-old has been in custody for nearly two years

01:04since the addendum order was purportedly issued,

01:07describing his prolonged detention as causing immense distress

01:11and deterioration to his emotional and overall well-being.

01:15This judicial review stems from Najib's conviction for abuse of power,

01:20criminal breach of trust,

01:22and money laundering related to 42 million ringgit

01:25from SRC International,

01:27a former subsidiary of 1MDB.

01:30In February last year,

01:32the Pardons Board reduced his original sentence

01:34from 12 years to 6 years in prison,

01:37and his fine from 210 million ringgit to 50 million ringgit.

01:41.

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