A DAP lawmaker has drawn an analogy from the fate of National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) defaulters in 1MDB’s failure to meet its deadline to pay International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC).

Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng pointed out how PTPTN loan defaulters would be blacklisted and thereafter barred from leaving the country.

“After getting blacklisted, it would be hard for them to obtain housing loans. In this case, the government couldn’t pay its debt so I want to know, shouldn’t the finance minister (Najib Abdul Razak) and part of the 1MDB management be blacklisted, too?...