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Corrupt former PM and Umno president Najib ‘1MDB’ Razak remains in Kajang Prison
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22, 2025: Multi-racial Malaysians and Malaysia are still safe with the sane decisions of a reliable and dependable judiciary.
The High Court today threw out the disgraced and former prime minister (PM) Najib “1MDB” Razak’s legal bid to be “freed” or placed under house arrest (also read as backdoor freedom).
Malaysians have been saved from corrupt leaders and the corrupt Umno who has been lobbying shamelessly for their former president to be “freed”.
Malaysia is still paying the billions of Ringgit in debts linked to 1Malaysia Development Berhad, a so-called Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), that was set up by Najib and managed like his “grandfather’s” funds.
In the last general election (GE15), Malaysians decided they had enough of the corrupt ways of Umno and reduced the then ruling party to a “small party” with only 26 seats in the 222-seat Parliament.
However, Umno continues to be in the Government and wields unbelievable influence, courtesy of Malaysia’s 10th Prime Minister (PMX) Anwar Ibrahim.
Come the next general election (GE16), multi-racial Malaysians must unite more solidly to reduce Umno to “zero” seats in Parliament so that its corrupt, eacial and religious bigoted politics are buried.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the court proceedings:
High Court throws out Najib’s house arrest bid
Justice Alice Loke rules that the ex-prime minister failed to prove his case in the addendum appeal.
Former prime minister Najib Razak, who has been serving his reduced six-year jail term in the SRC International corruption case at Kajang prison, sought to serve the balance of his sentence under house arrest.
KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Najib Razak will continue to serve the remainder of his jail sentence at Kajang prison.
High Court judge Justice Alice Loke this morning dismissed Najib’s application to serve his reduced six-year jail term for his SRC International conviction under house arrest.
In dismissing Najib’s judicial review application, Loke said the Yang di-Pertuan Agong was a constitutional monarch, and that his powers and functions were exercised in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Constitution.
“The exercise of the prerogative power of mercy is no exception.
“The addendum order was not deliberated or decided at the 61st Federal Territories Pardons Board (FTPB) meeting. There was no compliance with Article 42 of the constitution,” she said.
“Consequently, it is not a valid order. The respondents have no power and no duty to obey or enforce it. Conversely, the applicant has no right to the relief of mandamus.”
Loke ruled that the applicant’s argument – that the king was not obliged to make decisions during the FTPB meeting – had no legal basis and was untenable.
Najib, through his lawyer Shafee Abdullah, had argued that the king was not a member of the board and was entitled to make his decision in any manner and at any time that satisfied him personally.
“I am of the view that if Article 42 provides for the king to preside over the FTPB meeting, then it does not envisage a decision by the king being made outside that meeting,” she said.
“I find it a startling proposition to suggest that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong can exercise prerogative powers outside the pardons board meeting. It would invite arbitrary decisions.”
She added that the king could not act independently of the pardons board, as the Federal Constitution explicitly confined the exercise of clemency to a defined constitutional framework.
She also noted the important advisory role of the FTPB in guiding the king’s decision: “The attorney-general, as the government’s principal legal adviser, is a member of the board. It is mandatory for the board to consider his views.
“Taken together, these requirements do not envisage a decision by the king outside the pardons board meeting. In other words, the king cannot decide independently of the board,” she said.
Senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan and Hanir Hambali appeared for the government.
The judge made no order as to costs.
Najib, 72, was convicted of misappropriating RM42 million in SRC International Sdn Bhd funds and has been serving his sentence at Kajang prison since Aug 23, 2022.
In 2024, the FTPB halved his prison term from 12 years to six and reduced his fine from RM210 million to RM50 million.
A judicial review was filed last year seeking to compel the government to execute the addendum, or supplementary decree, to place him under house arrest.
Najib claimed that the supplementary decree was not announced by the pardons board, and that the government was in contempt for not executing it.
On Jan 6 this year, the appeals court, by a 2-1 majority, allowed the addendum to be entered into evidence and granted the former prime minister leave to pursue judicial review proceedings.
No legal mechanisms for house arrest, says High Court judge
Justice Alice Loke says the discretion to allow a person to serve a sentence under house arrest lies with the commissioner-general of prisons, and that the addendum order removes that discretion.
Former prime minister Najib Razak was convicted of misappropriating RM42 million in SRC International Sdn Bhd funds and has been serving his sentence at Kajang prison since Aug 23, 2022.
KUALA LUMPUR: House arrests cannot be implemented as there are no legal mechanisms for it, a High Court judge said when dismissing former prime minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve his reduced six-year jail term for his SRC International conviction under such conditions.
Justice Alice Loke said that under Section 43 of the Prisons Act 1995, the discretion to allow a person to serve a sentence under house arrest lies solely with the commissioner-general of prisons.
“The addendum order removes that discretion and is therefore inconsistent with the statutory framework,” she said in her ruling today.
She said the addendum order was not deliberated or decided at the 61st Federal Territories Pardons Board (FTPB) meeting, nor was there any compliance with Article 42 of the constitution.
The article in question grants the Yang di-Pertuan Agong the prerogative to grant pardons on the advice of the pardons board.
Loke also said the order was not valid, and that the respondents had neither power nor duty to obey or enforce it.
She also ruled that the applicant’s argument – that the king was not obliged to make decisions during the FTPB meeting – had no legal basis and was untenable.
Najib, 72, was convicted of misappropriating RM42 million in SRC International Sdn Bhd funds and has been serving his sentence at Kajang prison since Aug 23, 2022.
In 2024, the FTPB halved his prison term from 12 years to six and reduced his fine from RM210 million to RM50 million.
A judicial review was filed last year seeking to compel the government to execute the addendum, or supplementary decree, to place him under house arrest.
In March, law and institutional reform minister Azalina Othman Said told the Dewan Rakyat that the Prisons Act empowered the home minister to declare any home, building, or place a “prison” for the purpose of incarceration.
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