COMMENT | When ministers or their deputies make statements in Parliament, we take them to be those of the government and that they are unadulterated truths.

In the past, so many mendacious statements were said about the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and efforts to correct them by the mainstream media were muted by orders not to publish anything except the government’s views.

Those who chose to pursue the issue lost their jobs and The Edge, which sought to offer a different (read: truthful) perspective of the issue, was suspended.

All these have been water under the bridge when the new government took office in 2018. The court cases that followed offered a totally different standpoint on the lies that had been previously perpetrated to cover up wrongdoings and protect some very important persons, the then prime minister included.

But the whiff of lies, untruths and misinformation are once again permeating the hallowed halls of the august House.

On March 1, deputy law minister Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said the police can only complete their investigation into former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s husband Tawfiq Ayman’s link to 1MDB funds when Singapore reopens its border...