“However, the suggestion that Rafizi and his team derived personal gain from this deal is far-fetched. To equate the Arm deal with 1MDB is like a ‘cerita dongeng’ - a fairy tale that no rational person could believe.”

- DAP’s Puchong MP Yeo Bee Yin

COMMENT | The state’s harassment of James Chai, a former aide to ex-economy minister Rafizi Ramli and a small cog in the bloated bureaucracy of Malaysia, is further evidence of Madani attempting to create a counter-narrative to the allegations facing the MACC, specifically its head honcho, Azam Baki.

The MACC’s ludicrous explanation of why Chai has become a “wanted person”, supposedly because attempts to contact him on WhatsApp were blocked, is the kind of incompetent leadership that further deepens the public’s mistrust of the MACC.

Make no mistake, if the state were genuine in wanting to make contact with Chai, it has the methods and means to do so.

All we have to do is revisit what Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said in an interview with Sinar Harian more than a decade ago about the reach and influence of the state security apparatus...