Leaders in New Malaysia should not shy away from apologising when they make mistakes, lawyer Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla said today in reference to Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng's handling of the GST refunds issue.

Haniff – who has acted as a lawyer for Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad – noted that the Public Accounts Committee found "procedural irregularity" in how the previous government managed GST refunds, but pointed out that this did not amount to "robbery," as Lim had claimed...