The prosecution needed one month to declassify a large trove of documents that must be served on Najib Abdul Razak and Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah’s defence teams in the RM6.6 billion criminal breach of trust (CBT) trial.

As a result, the Kuala Lumpur High Court vacated the first day of the initially scheduled trial of the case linked to alleged payments to the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) today and rescheduled it to July 22.

During open-court proceedings...