Businessperson Tan Eng Boon failed in his application for the Kuala Lumpur High Court to temporarily stay his corruption case linked to former federal territories minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

In issuing the ruling today, judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali said that applicant Tan did not manage to show any exceptional and unusual circumstances to justify the interim stay of proceedings at the High Court.

Tan had sought the stay of proceedings pending his appeal at the Court of Appeal to reverse a decision that allowed a transfer of his case from the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court to the High Court...