Businessperson Albert Tei’s lawyer lambasted M Kulasegaran for likening whistleblower protection to a bank loan application, a comparison he says grossly trivialises a vital legal safeguard.

“With respect, this is nonsense,” Mahajoth Singh told Malaysiakini of the remarks by the deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms).

Mahajoth (above) stressed that whistleblower protection is...