“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it.” 

- Frédéric Bastiat

COMMENT | When the MACC chief commissioner outed the whistleblower in the Sabah corruption scandal, we moved past the something rotten in Denmark stage to full-blown Denmark is rotting territory.

The outing of the whistleblower was the final nail in the coffin with regard to the graftbusting agency’s credibility. It also demonstrated Madani’s lack of competency and tactical thinking.

Latheefa Koya, the former MACC chief, has claimed that someone high up threatened the whistleblower. Let us assume that there is a conspiracy to silence the whistleblower and cover up this corruption scandal.

The politically strategic thing for Madani to do is to announce that the government takes these allegations extremely seriously and an investigation would be carried out. The whistleblower would be afforded protection by the state, and the graft-busting body would have carried out an investigation.