COMMENT | Blind worship of the leaders of the tribe which we call Umno-Baru is why Malaysia is in the mess that we find ourselves today.

Even then, the nightmare of the 1MDB scandal is only just beginning.

On Aug 28, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court convicted two Petrosaudi International Ltd executives for their role in defrauding 1MDB of RM8 billion in the world’s worst case of kleptocracy.

However, 10,000km away, Johor Mentri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi, proudly boasted that convicted felon Najib Abdul Razak was one of Malaysia’s “best prime ministers”.