Najib yet to receive official notice of conditional pardon, lawyer says
Shafee Abdullah says neither Najib Razak nor the prisons department has received official notification of the conditional pardon issued last week.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's lawyer, Shafee Abdullah, has revealed that the official notice of the conditional pardon allowing Najib to serve his remaining prison sentence under house arrest has not yet been received. This comes a week after Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim granted the pardon, according to Shafee, who expressed confusion over the delay.
He also questioned the conditions attached to the pardon, insisting that his client, Najib, cannot afford the RM50 million fine as stipulated in the agreement. Shafee emphasized that while Najib received a significant sum from the Saudi royal family in 2013, he subsequently returned a substantial portion of it. The lawyer further confirmed that during civil suits related to 1MDB and SRC International, investigators questioned whether the funds had returned to Najib's accounts, but the money had not.
When asked about the location for Najib's house arrest, Shafee confirmed that it would continue to be Langkawi Duta.
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