KUALA LUMPUR — Putrajaya will declassify Pardons Boards documents on Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s house arrest, said government spokesman Datuk Seri Fahmi Fadzil.
He said this was the government’s intention, but that mandatory procedures must be followed.
The declassification process of the minutes of the Federal Territories Pardons Board meeting on the matter is underway, according to legal requirements.
“The intention is indeed there, and it will go through the prescribed, mandatory process,” Fahmi, who is also the Communications Minister, told reporters at his weekly post-cabinet press conference.
Najib was transferred to his Langgak Duta residence on November 10 to begin serving the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, until August 23, 2028. He was convicted of corruption in the SRC International case and began imprisonment on August 23, 2022, originally for 12 years before it was halved to six years by a Pardons Board decision in January 2024.
On September 18 this year, another Pardons Board decision allowed Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, subject to payment of a RM50 million fine.
Calls for the declassification of the board’s minutes were made by Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman following the delay in implementing a court order to “discharge” Najib after the fine was paid.
The Attorney-General’s Chambers sought clarify over the term
“discharge” and a fresh court order was issued on November 10 to move him to house arrest.
Yesterday, Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail told Parliament that he would propose at today’s cabinet meeting that the minutes of Pardons board be declassified. – November 13, 2026