Former defence minister Mohamad Sabu and his then deputy Liew Chin Tong questioned whether former premier Najib Abdul Razak’s plan from the beginning for the littoral combat ships (LCS) project was to help pay off the bad debts from the failed new generation patrol vessel (NGPV) project.

This comes after Najib attempted to link former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS) being forced to use part of the funding for the LCS to pay off NGPV’s bad debts.

“In 2011, Najib as the sixth prime minister (PM6)...