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KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 – Malaysia’s top court on Monday granted the Attorney-General’s application to\u00a0appeal a ruling<\/a>\u00a0giving jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak access to a document he says allows him to serve his remaining prison sentence under house arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Najib, imprisoned for his role in the multi-billion dollar 1MDB scandal<\/a>, is pursuing a legal bid to compel authorities to confirm the existence of and execute a royal order that he said was issued last year as part of a pardon by the then king, entitling him to serve the remainder of his sentence at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a unanimous decision, a three-member Federal Court bench ruled that the Attorney-General could appeal a lower court’s January ruling in favour of Najib’s attempt to access the alleged document, with the case to be heard on July 1 and 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The former premier had his 12-year sentence halved<\/a> last year in a pardon by then-King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah. Najib said an “addendum order” to the pardon that granted him home detention was ignored by authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The former king’s palace has issued a letter saying the document does exist, but Malaysia’s law ministry said it has no record of it<\/a>, its home minister has denied knowledge<\/a> and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said "we did not hide anything"<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n