Malaysia’s King Sultan Ibrahim warned that questioning his conditional pardon for jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak could amount to defying a royal decree, escalating a dispute over Najib’s transfer to house arrest. Najib was convicted over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal and received a conditional pardon in September allowing him to serve the remainder of his first sentence at home after paying a fine. The new account says the fine was $12 million and that the Attorney General blocked the transfer after payment, while an earlier account put the payment at RM50 million and linked the delay to questions surrounding a Kuala Lumpur High Court discharge order. The Attorney General’s Office said it was seeking to avoid conflicting or unlawful implementation of existing orders, not challenge the King’s authority. The prime minister’s office said the attorney general would seek an audience with the monarch while maintaining that unresolved legal questions could be decided only by a court. Najib also faces a separate 15-year sentence in another 1MDB-linked case, which is due to follow the house-arrest term and is under appeal.