Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s counsel criticised the Attorney-General’s Chambers for keeping mum over its request to extradite former Goldman Sachs executive Tim Leissner over the 1MDB trial.

This comes after The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Putrajaya had submitted the extradition request to the US Justice Department in August last year.

“It’s troubling to learn that the AGC sent an extradition request...