Politicians across the divide - including past and present prime ministers - have long accused the police, MACC, attorney-general, and the courts of dancing to the executive’s tune and choreographing cases against political nemeses.

Now, those claims resurface as a war of words erupts between Umno’s Puad Zarkashi, Bersatu’s Wan Saiful Wan Jan, and PKR’s Rafizi Ramli.

Puad fired the first shot, warning...