COMMENT | In her recent parliamentary reply, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said contended that the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) merely granted 18 VIPs a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) between 2017 and 2024.

Nonetheless, she did not reveal the names of these VIPs. However, we all know among the high-profile VIPs who were granted DNNAs include the current deputy prime minister, former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak and former treasury secretary-general Irwan Serigar Abdullah.

Najib and Irwan were granted a DNAA over six criminal breach of trust charges involving RM6.6 billion. Hitherto both have not been reindicted despite the fact under the law the DNAA is merely a provisional release.

As expected, the minister cited...