House arrest for Najib in 2025? Gambit will test PM Anwar’s political skills

For a man behind bars, former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has had a good 2024.

In January, after serving 17 months of a 12-year sentence for his first conviction tied to the 1MDB financial scandal,

Najib received a partial pardon from the outgoing king

, Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah. At the time, the halving of his jail term seemed like the year’s high point for the jailed former leader.