Graft busters strike hard at statutory body legacy deals—dragging a former top executive into court over suspect land sales and developer appointments, backed by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s high-level push to clean up past institutional leakages
While Malaysia celebrates the return of US$1.37b in misappropriated 1MDB assets from the US, Law Minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said reveals that the final tally of recovered wealth remains a moving target due to market fluctuations and complex, ongoing global court battles
As corruption, smuggling and environmental crimes drain tens of billions of ringgit each year, the uproar over a small “kuil haram” suggests national outrage may be dangerously misplaced, says this writer