COMMENT The present attorney-general (AG), Mohamed Apandi Ali, certainly does not inspire confidence with his recent disclosure of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) investigation against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Within just a span of 48 hours, Apandi has been receiving (and rightly so) the brickbats from people of all walks of life, and even the professionals within his own legal fraternity. Locally as well as in the international community, Malaysia is getting a bad name.

Within the past 48 hours after Apandi’s ‘historic’ press conference was held on Tuesday, news has flashed across the world on Al Jazeera, CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, ABC, CCTV News, Channel News Asia, The Wall Street Journal and many others, putting the country’s reputation on the line...