KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s top court granted on Monday the attorney-general’s application to appeal jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s legal bid to access a document he says allows him to serve his remaining prison sentence under house arrest.
Najib, imprisoned for his role in the multi-billion dollar 1MDB scandal, is pursuing a legal bid to compel authorities to confirm the existence 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 home.
(Reporting by Danial Azhar; Editing by John Mair)
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