Threat of prosecution to silence 1MDB critics

COMMENT Not being content with sacking his deputy prime minister and his attorney-general, disbanding the public accounts committee (PAC) and the special task force, detaining and transferring civil servants, suspending two publications of The Edge group and generally using the might of the state to paralyse any inquiry into the 1MDB scandal and how US$700 million was credited into his personal bank accounts, the prime minister is now threatening to charge all and sundry with offences which are ‘detrimental to parliamentary democracy’.