Businessperson Albert Tei is ready to name the MACC officer who warned him against exposing the Sabah mining scandal, but he wants whistleblower protection first, said his lawyer, Mahajoth Singh.

In a statement to Malaysiakini this evening, the lawyer disclosed that the warning came from an individual holding a position of high authority.

He was responding to Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) M Kulasegaran, who...