COMMENT | Najib and 1MDB: Know the past to understand the present

COMMENT | This is not the time to express views however personal and truthful they can be. The trial is on, and the former attorney-general has already been read the “Riot Act” over his comments on another ongoing trial.

What I intend to do is to take readers back to the time immediately after BN was unseated in May 2018. There’s plenty of stuff in the archives, and Google provides plenty of anecdotes and quotes from the past.

The issues raised here are not aimed at influencing the judges, and if it is said that the intention is to encourage and cajole Malaysians to engage in some form of critical thinking and compare the news reports of the past and the current, I have to put up my hands and say “yes”.

Several statements, announcements and justifications which were made in the past are for the discerning reader to make their own conclusions. For further reading, it is suggested that you use a search engine on the same subject.

After reading and digesting excerpts, the reader will have a clearer view of the events...