Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak may have declared that his brainchild 1MDB’s major challenges are now behind it , but his critics believe otherwise.

One of his fiercest critics, former Langkawi Umno member Anina Saadudin, said the state investment company had simply sold its assets in efforts to reduce its debts.

“What he (Najib) is doing now is only saying what they have and not what they earn. They are just selling whatever the country has built so far,” she told Malaysiakini .