Did Singapore wrongly convict four bankers linked to Malaysian state investment fund 1MDB, if the United States Department of Justice's (DOJ) civil suits against the fund were based on unreliable sources?

This is the question put forward by Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng to Umno supreme council member Ab Aziz Kaprawi today.

Lim was responding to Aziz, who yesterday alleged the DOJ had relied on unreliable sources, such as the whistleblower website Sarawak Report, in its investigations into 1MDB.

Aziz said the DOJ did not seek the help of local authorities, nor 1MDB president Arul Kanda Kandasamy, and this showed it had a political motive. He further alleged that history has shown that nearly all countries in which the US had interfered, were left in tatters...