Chiew Seng Liew, one of two men jailed over the fatal 1991 shooting of Victor Chang during a failed extortion attempt, arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport early Saturday, a senior immigration official said.
Liew, 69, was released from a Sydney jail on Friday after serving 21 years of his 26-year sentence, ahead of his daughter's wedding, which is reportedly due to take place next Saturday.
Last month the parole board in the state of New South Wales agreed to free Liew, who has advanced Parkinson's disease, after his lawyers argued that he would soon be unfit to travel and unable to be deported back to Malaysia.
His release came after the state's Attorney-General Greg Smith said the government would drop its appeal against Liew's release.
Liew pulled the trigger in the murder. The man who provided the gun, Phillip Choon Tee Lim, was also jailed over the killing and was paroled and deported to Malaysia in 2010 after serving 18 years in prison.
Chang earned an international reputation for his pioneering work on heart transplant methods and was gunned down on a pavement near his Sydney home as he made his way to work, in a killing that shocked the nation.
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