The Kuala Lumpur High Court has set Thursday this week to hear Investment, Trade, and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz’s bid to intervene in former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s house arrest legal action.

Zafrul seeks the intervener status so that he be allowed by the civil court to file an affidavit to correct alleged factual errors in Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s affidavit in support of Najib’s judicial review...