The onus was solely on Bank Negara to inform the government on its foreign exchange (forex) trading activities, former finance minister Daim Zainuddin said today.

He said restrictions under the Official Secrets Act 1972 (OSA) meant only the Bank Negara governor could have told him about the central bank's forex trading when he was finance minister, and at the time even the auditor-general, who reported to him, did not inform him that something was amiss.

“Everything you can see now was under the OSA. The fact it is under the OSA means they don’t want people to know," Daim said...