Immediately, then-premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad released the list of people awarded privatised projects.
“There are literally hundreds of them, and quite obviously, they are not cronies of us (Mahathir and his deputy, Anwar Ibrahim),” he said.
This was more restricted information than a breach of the Official Secrets Act, as details of these companies’ beneficiaries could be discovered through searches at the Companies Commission of Malaysia.
Three days after Parliament was...