KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15 -- The Sessions Court will not be hearing former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's application - to have his three remaining money-laundering charges set aside in order to get a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) - for now.

This is because the Sessions Court has decided to grant the prosecution's application to temporarily stay or pause proceedings here. (The proceedings would include Muhyiddin's bid to set aside and obtain a DNAA on those three charges.)

This afternoon, Sessions Court judge Azura Alwi delivered her decision, by deciding to allow the stay until the Court of Appeal decides on a related appeal.

This morning, Azura heard the prosecution's application to stay the proceedings at the...