COMMENT | How many more times is the judicial process going to be stretched, bent over, malformed, manipulated and otherwise circumvented to get a convicted criminal - the biggest kleptocrat the world has ever seen and who faces a multitude of other serious charges in the billions of ringgit - released from jail and to the comfort of his own house?

This person, former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, abused the trust placed in him to systematically and wilfully conspire with Low Taek Jho (also known as Jho Low), then not even out of his thirties, to pilfer billions from the nation’s coffers. What has he done to deserve such treatment?

If we had triable treason laws in the country, he could have been found guilty on many counts and faced the most serious sentences possible for causing so much damage to the country.

The irony is that Umno Baru, the most...