In the long arc of accountability that has followed former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's conviction, a new chapter is taking shape — one that trades a prison cell for a guarded home, but not without conditions. Malaysia's Attorney General has confirmed that the Prisons Department is preparing the rules that will govern Najib's house arrest, a conditional pardon granted by the Federal Territories Pardons Board under the King's chairmanship. Yet the machinery cannot move until Najib settles a RM50 million fine, a payment that stands as the threshold between incarceration and confinement