DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang has urged the cabinet to establish whether Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's statement that he will no longer issue statements in relation to the US Department of Justice's (DOJ) civil forfeiture suits against 1MDB-linked assets was an admission of wrongdoing.

He said the cabinet should also take the necessary action to clear "Malaysia’s infamy and ignominy of being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy”.

"The cabinet, at its first meeting tomorrow after the updated and expanded DOJ kleptocratic actions against 1MDB-linked assets, must establish whether Najib’s 'no more statements on DOJ' is a mea culpa admission of the multi-billion dollar 1MDB kleptocratic money-laundering scandal," said Lim in a statement today.

Commenting further, he wondered whether Najib was distancing or even repudiating what his cousin, Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said in the latter’s second statement on the DOJ's latest filing.

Hishammuddin had challenged the DOJ to press criminal charges if it had proof of wrongdoing in the 1MDB affair...