Some conspiracy must be brewing in the highest echelons of the Umno leadership. At a time when the party should be focused on responding to economic challenges and rapidly rising costs of living in preparation for the upcoming general elections, a scandal that once haunted Najib Abdul Razak is back in the limelight for public scrutiny.

The prime minister had hoped to bury the potentially explosive issue for good, but the billion-dollar purchase of French submarines he approved when he was defence minister refused to die a quiet death. It also involved the shocking and tragic murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, whose trial concluded with the death penalty for the two accused, though no motive was ever found.