COMMENT | And now, a sequel to 'Billion Dollar Whale'

COMMENT | If film producers in Hollywood are planning a sequel to ‘The Billion Dollar Whale’, there is ready-made documentation for the scriptwriters in the form of the findings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), discoveries made by politicians and statements made by the supposed perpetrators.

Meanwhile, some reports which were termed “secret” will soon be declassified despite claims that they would jeopardise the defence systems of the country.

This, like the 1MDB scandal, involved money - billions of our taxpayers’ money - and there’s little to show.

One or two characters are the same, but in the absence of an Arab prince there were royals who launched a vessel with a make-belief mast which we have been told is now in storage at the shipyard, and there are seagoing vessels but not in the class of the Equanimity.

As usual, there is the involvement of both the finance minister and the defence minister, both of whom offered nothing except token...