Pekan MP Najib Razak has refuted former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's claims that he was given special treatment which led to a Court of Appeal's decision to temporarily return his passport.

"What different treatment? I applied through the court. I did not ask it from the government," Najib said in a Facebook post.

He was responding to Mahathir's labelling of him as Malaysia's "first VIP criminal" for the alleged special treatment...