He said the request involves an ongoing court case and he would hold a meeting with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission soon “to scrutinise the legal aspects before making any further announcements”.

He said MCMC had conveyed some initial views.

“I feel that they need to be given some consideration based on the law because it involves a court case,” he said.

“We need to examine this because it has been raised in court. There are several things that need to be investigated, especially the legal aspects,” he said.

Yesterday, Najib’s lawyer, Shafee Abdullah, requested the government to instruct Netflix to take down and prohibit the airing of the documentary related to the 1MDB scandal.

Shafee said the documentary, written and directed by Cassius Michael Kim, is sub judice and detrimental to Najib’s defence in his ongoing 1MDB trial.