Cops are expected to travel to Malaysia to escort Rizalman to New Zealand.

PETALING JAYA: After months of complicated red tape and frayed relations between New Zealand and Malaysia, diplomat Muhammed Rizalman bin Ismail, appears to be headed back to New Zealand to face charges of burglary and sexual assault.

According to The New Zealand Herald, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said he was advised of a court case in Malaysia regarding the extradition order for Rizalman, a former envoy at the Malaysian High Commission in New Zealand.

Refusing to go into too much detail about Rizalmans impending trial, McCully did however state, The matter is entirely in the hands of the judicial system in both countries.

McCully also confirmed he had heard of a report that Rizalman would be returning Friday to New Zealand but that he left it to the police to either confirm or deny it.

Wellington police when contacted said the process of extradition was ongoing and that they would despatch their police officers to Malaysia to escort Rizalman back to New Zealand.

Both the ministry and police however remained cautious with information, giving very little else except the bare necessities.

Rizalman left New Zealand with diplomatic immunity on May 22 this year after a ministerial mix-up following allegations he had trailed a young woman, Tania Billingsley to her home in Brooklyn with the intention to rape her.

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