Azilah’s lawyer Athari Bahardin said the date was agreed on by parties today following case management before deputy registrar Zarifah Zainal Abidin.

“However, we are objecting to Najib becoming an intervener in the action brought by Azilah,” he told reporters.

Deputy public prosecutor Tengku Intan Suraya Tengku Ismail said the prosecution was also against Najib being made an intervener.

Zarifah fixed Dec 8 to hear Azilah’s review application.

Azilah, who is now in Kajang prison, filed the review last December under Rule 137 of the Federal Court Rules 1995 to set aside his 2015 conviction and order a re-trial to prevent a miscarriage of justice.

Azilah, who was convicted together with former policeman Sirul Azhar Umar, said among others that Abdul Razak Baginda, Altantuya’s former lover who was acquitted of her murder, and senior police officer Musa Safri were aware of “instructions” from Najib.

He and Sirul were sentenced to death in January 2015, nine years after Altantuya was killed in a forest near Shah Alam and her body blown up with explosives.

A five-member bench chaired by then-chief justice Arifin Zakaria overturned their earlier acquittal by the Court of Appeal.

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