INTERVIEW | When Arul Kanda Kandasamy came on board 1MDB as CEO in 2015, his primary task was to handle debt rationalisation.

However, he quickly found that he had to take on tasks that he did not bargain for.

"The noise got louder after I joined. A lot of people asked me why I joined 1MDB. The short answer was when I accepted the job in December 2014 and started work in January 2015, the noise wasn't that loud," he told Malaysiakini in an interview.

Now, Arul Kanda has not only taken on the role of 1MDB's public face in a way that past CEOs had not done, but also gone on a ceramah blitz to explain the 1MDB matter...