Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s legal team is preparing to mount a challenge against the report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Bank Negara’s foreign exchange (forex) losses in the 1990s and will be filing papers in court soon.

The lawyer for Mahathir, Mohd Haniff Khatri Abdulla, said the deadline for the RCI to respond to Mahathir’s letter of demand had lapsed on Friday last week, and he had yet to receive a response as of yesterday.

“We are preparing the cause papers. In the very near future, we will file the necessary application in court and we will inform you,” Haniff told reporters outside the Court of Appeal today...