Former Malaysian diplomat Muhammad Rizalman Ismail, who has been charged with sexual assault, is scheduled to be extradited from Kuala Lumpur on Friday night and arrive in New Zealand on Saturday morning.

According to a report on New Zealand portal stuff.co.nz , Rizalman will be accompanied by the Kiwi police on a flight leaving Kuala Lumpur on Friday.

He will arrive in New Zealand on Saturday morning, where he will face the charge after returning back to Malaysia, five months ago.

Rizalman, who was the military attache with the Malaysian High Commission in New Zealand, was charged with sexually assaulting Tania Billingsley, 22, earlier this year after breaking into her home.

He returned to Malaysia on May 22, after the government refused to waive his diplomatic immunity, resulting in an uproar in New Zealand.

The New Zealand authorities had in recent weeks applied to Malaysia for the extradition of the disgraced former diplomat to face the charge and trial there.

Previously, it was reported that Rizalman was undergoing psychiatric evaluation after his return home to Malaysia and this was completed in August.

Earlier this month, Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein blamed the New Zealand authorities for the delay in extraditing the former diplomat when asked in parliament whether the slow extradition process was due to Putrajaya’s fault or its counterpart in New Zealand.

The Foreign Ministry here said it received an official request for the extradition on Oct 3 , five months after Rizalman was charged.

"In accordance with the Extradition Act 1992 (Malaysia), the ministry has forwarded the request to the Home Affairs Ministry and the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) for further action,” it said in a statement at that time, where the Foreign Ministry denied accusations that Putrajaya is “dragging its feet” on the issue.

Rizalman was charged in May with sexually assaulting Billingsley, only for him to return back to Malaysia with his family on May 22.

It caught the attention of New Zealand in June, sparking outrage.

Billingsley came out in public on July 9, expressing anger how her government could have let Rizalman go back home, and felt the authorities there did not pursue her complaint hard enough.