PUTRAJAYA: Whether or not former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak receives a royal pardon is now in the hands of the "court of compassion", says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.
The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform) said that Umno no longer had a part to play as all legal avenues had been exhausted and that the King has the final say.
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