PETALING JAYA: There is speculation that the Federal Territories Pardons Board will sit on Friday (Sept 18) to discuss former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's application for pardon.
This came days after the matter of Najib's pardon was deferred during the board's last meeting on Sept 11.
The Star has reached out but has yet to receive confirmation of the meeting.
The decision to defer Najib's bid for pardon was made at the 63rd meeting of the Pardons Board for the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya on Sept 11.
The Prime Minister’s Department’s Legal Affairs Division had said then the board agreed to defer Najib’s application for a pardon to a future meeting.
The meeting was held in Putrajaya.
Najib, 73, was convicted of misappropriating RM42mil belonging to SRC International and sentenced to 12 years in prison, along with a RM210mil fine.
He began serving his sentence at Kajang Prison on Aug 23, 2022.
The Pardons Board subsequently halved his prison term to six years and reduced the fine to RM50mil.
On Dec 22, then High Court judge Justice Alice Loke, now a Court of Appeal judge, dismissed Najib’s application to serve the remainder of his reduced sentence under house arrest.
Najib later withdrew his appeal against the decision.
