We were only told of Najib's sentence reduction, not house arrest, says Home Minister


PUTRAJAYA: The Home Ministry did not receive any orders from the Prime Minister’s Department’s Legal Affairs Division on allowing Datuk Seri Najib Razak to serve the remainder of his prison sentence under house arrest, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

The Home Minister said his ministry only received a letter from the division that detailed meeting minutes of the Pardons Board which met on Jan 29 and Feb 2 last year.

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