{"id":362966,"date":"2025-12-22T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362966\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:19:07","slug":"malaysia-court-rejects-najibs-bid-to-serve-sentence-under-house-arrest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362966\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia court rejects Najib\u2019s bid to serve sentence under house arrest | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKINGBREAKING, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">High Court says a royal document allowing the ex-PM\u2019s transfer to house arrest was not valid.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 22 Dec 202522 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>A court in Malaysia has \u200ddismissed jailed \u200dformer Prime Minister Najib Razak\u2019s bid to serve the remainder of his sentence for corruption at home, saying a royal document allowing the \u2060move was invalid as it was not \u200bmade according to procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling on Monday dealt another blow to Najib, who has been imprisoned since August 2022 for his role in the multi-billion dollar 1MDB scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Najib has sought to compel Malaysian authorities to \u200dconfirm the \u2060existence of and execute a royal order that he said was issued last year as part of a pardon by the then-king, entitling him to serve the remainder of his sentence at \u200bhome.<\/p>\n<p>Kuala Lumpur High Court \u200cjudge Alice Loke said on Monday that the existence of the order was not in dispute, but the former king should \u200chave consulted the country\u2019s pardons board before making the order \u200cto allow Najib house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060decision to deny him house arrest comes just days before Najib faces his biggest trial in the 1MDB \u200cscandal, with another court set to deliver its judgement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Najib has denied all of \u200dthe charges brought against him.<\/p>\n<p>More soon\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKINGBREAKING, High Court says a royal document allowing the ex-PM\u2019s transfer to house arrest was not valid. Published&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1204,4,450,451,1205,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-362966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-malaysia","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}