COMMENT | Browsing through judge Colin Sequerah’s 810-page written judgement on the RM2.3 billion case involving Najib Abdul Razak, released on Tuesday, one is struck by the record trial time of over six years and the mountains of evidence that had to be sifted through.

It definitely did not give the impression of Najib as someone who was not aware of what was happening but was fully cognisant of what he was doing when he gave approvals for money transfers and worked with businessperson Low Taek Jho (Jho Low) to enable the fraud.

And as elections are around the corner or further out of the bend, depending on who you talk to, it is worthwhile remembering that 1MDB may not have happened if we had controls on election funding in place.

It has been speculated that part of the money that came into...