Najib Abdul Razak has withdrawn his appeal to obtain banking information on former Bank Negara governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s family.

The former prime minister’s lead counsel, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, informed this to the Federal Court, which was set to hear the appeal this morning.

The incarcerated former finance minister had sought the documents to bolster his defence against an ongoing corruption trial involving RM2.28 billion of funds...