COMMENT | Mr PM, please update our anti-corruption laws

COMMENT | These days, not a day passes without two key words being in the news – “pardon” and “corruption”, which are inexplicably connected in the Malaysian context.

One party in the unity government - Umno is touting a pardon for its former president, a convicted felon – Najib Abdul Razak.

The other – Pakatan Harapan, especially its leader, Anwar Ibrahim is on an anti-corruption initiative.

Anwar has said that he would be “neutral” in the pardon application because he sits on the Pardons Board, by virtue of being the de facto Federal Territories Minister.

The same words used in his anti-corruption vitriol were absent leading to speculation if there had been “deals made” to get Umno to prop up his unity government...