00:00Former Prime Minister Datuk Sri Najib Razak has filed an appeal against the High Court ruling
00:07that dismissed his bid to serve the remainder of his SRC international prison sentence
00:12under house arrest. His lawyer, Mohammad Farhan Mohammad Shafi, confirmed that the appeal was
00:18filed on December 24. On December 22, the High Court dismissed Najib's judicial review,
00:24stating that the alleged addendum order by the then Yang Di Pertuan Agong was issued outside the
00:30constitutional framework and was therefore invalid and unenforceable. Najib is currently serving the
00:37sentence imposed by the High Court, which found him guilty of abuse of power, criminal breach of trust,
00:42and money laundering involving 42 million ringgit siphoned from SRC International, a former One
00:49Malaysia Development Berhad, one MDB subsidiary. He exhausted all appeals in the high-profile SRC case
00:57and failed to overturn his conviction and sentence. On February 2 last year, the pardons board reduced
01:04Najib's original 12-year jail term and 210 million ringgit fine to six years imprisonment and a 50
01:11million ringgit fine. Under the revised sentence, he is due for release on August 23, 2028.
01:19On April 1, 2024, Najib filed a judicial review application claiming the existence of a royal
01:26addendum order that would have allowed him to serve his sentence under house arrest. Meanwhile,
01:32Mohammad Farhan also said that an appeal against Najib's conviction and sentence in the 2.28 billion
01:38ringgit one MDB case has yet to be filed, pending receipt of the formal court order. Last Friday,
01:46the High Court sentenced Najib to 15 years imprisonment and an 11.4 billion ringgit fine
01:52after convicting him on all 25 charges in the 1 MDB case.
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