Deputy public prosecutor Mohamad Mustaffa P Kunyalam said the date was fixed today during online case management before Court of Appeal senior assistant registrar Nurul Azrina Mohamed Yusof.

Lawyer Nur Syahirah Hanapiah represented Najib.

On July 12, 2021, the High Court dismissed the former prime minister’s application to obtain documents as it was deemed premature.

Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah said he did not see how the bank documents related to the funds Zeti’s family received were relevant to Najib’s defence.

Sequerah said the documents sought by Najib to question Zeti’s credibility as then BNM governor also “amount to a collateral attack”.

“Counsel can confront her (Zeti) when she is called to the witness stand later,” he said.

The court also turned down Najib’s application to obtain former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner’s mobile phone records, saying the prosecution had made it clear it did not have the documents in its possession.

“The prayers in the notice of motion to obtain the phone records are not capable of enforcement.

“It is in evidence that the phone records that the accused (Najib) is seeking for are not part of the prosecution’s case against him and thus the prosecution is not obliged to furnish these documents,” Sequerah said.

On Najib’s attempt to secure a copy of the settlement agreement between the government and Goldman Sachs, he said the information sought by the defence was not specified.

Putrajaya reached a settlement with Goldman Sachs in July 2020 that would see the country getting back US$3.9 billion (RM16.63 billion).

“This amounts to a ‘fishing expedition’ which is not allowed under the law,” the judge said.

Najib is standing trial on 25 charges for abuse of power and money laundering over alleged 1MDB funds amounting to RM2.28 billion deposited into his AmBank accounts between February 2011 and December 2014.