KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak made a written request to include another residence as a gazetted prison premises for his house arrest, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
“Najib submitted a written request asking whether we could make a decision allowing another house (as a prison) as well,” the Home Minister told the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday (Nov 12).
“For now, we are bound by the Pardons Board’s decision, which is there is only one house (permitted).
“Najib requested… another house in the additional conditions (and) that request cannot be fulfilled,” he told Suhaizan Kaiat (PH-Pulai), who asked about the specific conditions imposed for Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest until Aug 23, 2028.
Suhaizan also wanted to know the agency responsible for monitoring compliance with these conditions.
Najib was moved from Kajang Prison to house arrest on Tuesday (Nov 10).
The Kuala Lumpur High Court allowed him to do so after an application by the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) to review an earlier release order issued on Friday (Nov 6).
Najib was convicted in July 2020 of misappropriating RM42mil from SRC International Sdn Bhd and sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment and a RM210mil fine.
On Sept 18, the Legal Affairs Division of the Prime Minister’s Department, which serves as the Pardons Board secretariat, announced that His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, had consented to granting Najib a conditional pardon with a RM50mil fine.
On Friday, Najib’s defence counsel confirmed that his client had paid the RM50mil fine imposed in the SRC case at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.
