Najib's court-attendance appeal dismissed on academic grounds

Najib Abdul Razak was appealing a Kuala Lumpur High Court dismissal of his bid to attend a hearing of his application to quash the US$681 million Mareva injunction against him.

However, the hearing that he wanted to attend was on Nov 11 last year, and the High Court on Sept 27 this year, dismissed the former prime minister’s 1MDB bid to quash the restraining order obtained by Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB...