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KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has succeeded in his discovery application in relation to a civil suit filed by his former research aide Muhammed Yusoff Rawther.

KUALA LUMPUR: The discovery application filed by Datuk Seri Najib Razak relating to documents linked to former Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz is merely a collateral attack on issues raised at the RM2.28bil 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial), the High Court here heard.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak. - Filepic/The Star KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has fixed May 31 to hear two discovery applications by Datuk Seri Najib Razak in his bid to obtain 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)-linked documents involving investment bank Goldman Sachs and Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz. The former prime minister had filed the first of the two applications on March 24. That notice of motion was to compel the prosecution in his RM2.28bil 1MDB trial to disclose banking documents linked to Zeti,...

An action quietly started by Najib’s legal team in the United States last November has come to light, showing that he plans to go on the offensive against the key witnesses testifying for the prosecution in his trial over 1MDB and to blame them for misleading him, their boss, over the theft of billions that ended up in his own accounts. The case being brought in the Southern District of New York is a so-called Discovery Application using civil law procedures that would enable him to force bot...