The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today approved the application by former finance minister Daim Zainuddin’s wife, Na’imah Abdul Khalid, for the temporary release of her passport for business trips to the United Kingdom and Japan.

Judge Azura Alwi approved the request after Nizamuddin Abdul Hamid, Na’imah’s lawyer, informed the court his client was seeking to retrieve her passport from today until Nov 11, and that the prosecution did not object to it.

“The court grants the applicant’s request and...