In welcoming the government's move to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the foreign exchange losses scandal, opposition leader Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, however, stressed that a similar commission must be formed to look into 1MDB.

"Setting-up an RCI on 1MDB is important to show that the forex scandal RCI is not a selective political move or the government's desperate attempt at diverting attention from the United States Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest allegations on 1MDB.