Amid the controversy surrounding the royal addendum which would allow former premier Najib Abdul Razak to serve the remainder of his sentence at home, veteran news editor A Kadir Jasin recalled the case of a “privileged prisoner” from the 1980s.

“If we still remember, there was a businessperson prisoner named Abdullah Ang who received special treatment, even being allowed to leave prison to do gardening. He was also a white-collar criminal,” he said in a blog post.