Malaysia’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak on January 6 won an appeal to pursue his bid to serve his remaining corruption sentence under house arrest.

A Malaysian court on Monday granted jailed ex-premier Najib Razak's bid to access a royal document that should allow him to serve his sentence at home, in a rare win for the disgraced former leader at the heart of the country's biggest scandal.

The Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in favour of Razak’s request to have his case for house arrest reviewed, citing a letter from a Pahang state palace official.View on euronews

By Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's appeals court on Monday granted a bid by jailed ex-premier Najib Razak to see a document he said should allow him to serve his sentence at home, in a rare win for a disgraced former leader at the heart of the country's biggest scandal.

Malaysia's appeals court granted on Monday a bid by jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to obtain a document that he said would allow him to serve the remainder of his prison sentence at home. Najib,