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The decision had been scheduled for January 5. The house arrest decision will now come four days before the High Court is due to hand down its verdict on December 26 in the biggest trial that Najib faces over the scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian court will decide on December 22 whether jailed former prime minister Najib Razak can serve his sentence under house arrest, just days before delivering its verdict in another major case he faces over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.Najib, 72, is serving a six-year jail sentence after being found guilty of graft and money laundering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malay court brings forward decision on ex-PM Najib&#039;s house arrest bid to Dec 22 - 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