KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 — The High Court today dismissed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s two separate applications for the prosecution to provide documents related to companies under former Bank Negara Malaysia governor Tan Seri Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s family, as well as US investment bank Goldman Sachs’ documents in Hong Kong.
In dismissing both applications today, High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah described Najib’s application for discovery of Goldman Sachs documents as a “fishing expedition”, news portalIn Najib’s first application filed on March 24, he asked for bank account statements from 2008 to 2020 for eight entities , as well as Butamba Investment Limited, Central Holding Limited and law firm Sherman and Sterling LLC).
In his second application filed on April 5, he asked for former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner’s Hong Kong mobile phones and these mobile phones’ transcript and passwords, data on Goldman Sach’s servers.