The High Court in Kuala Lumpur has today fixed Dec 18 to hear Najib Abdul Razak's application to challenge the fiat (mandate) given to government-appointed prosecutor Sulaiman Abdullah to prosecute the former premier for seven charges of criminal breach of trust and abuse of power involving SRC International Sdn Bhd.

Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali also fixed the same date to hear submissions on the defence application to obtain more documents, namely the recorded statements of witnesses who would testify in the trial...