Three cabinet ministers reportedly walked out of the cabinet meeting today, as speculation mounts over a rift between ministers on the handling of the 1MDB debacle.

Quoting sources, China Press reports that the trio were Rural and Regional Development Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal, Communication and Multimedia Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek and Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

The daily also reported that Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin uncharacteristically left the meeting room after the session was concluded.

The source told the daily that normally, cabinet ministers would stay back after the meeting was concluded for further deliberations on cabinet decisions.

Of the four cabinet ministers, Shafie, Khairy and Muhyiddin have all gone on record to demand for accountability for 1MDB's problems.

Recently, the spotlight has fallen on Shafie because of his comments which appear to be an attempt to disassociate cabinet from 1MDB's problems.

However, as reported by Malaysiakini earlier, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is 1MDB's final decision maker.

As the Umno Youth leader, Khairy had demanded that the authorities expedite their probe on 1MDB.

As for Muhyiddin, he had called for 1MDB's top leadership to be sacked .

In a related development, Khairy wrote on Twitter that he had to leave the meeting early to catch a flight to Cambodia.

I left early because I had to catch a flight to Cambodia. Nice try. https://t.co/zi8efS8CMq

— Khairy Jamaluddin (@Khairykj) June 3, 2015