The Commercial Division of the Kuala Lumpur High Court has granted an ex-parte Mareva injunction to 1MDB and its subsidiaries to freeze former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak or his agents in relation to their claim of US$681 million allegedly going into his personal bank account.

The ex-parte application given by judicial commissioner Atan Mustaffa Yussof Ahmad yesterday only allowed the former prime minister to withdraw up to RM100,000 monthly from his bank accounts to meet his expenditure or living expenses...