Prosecution complex

MALAYSIAN politics have a way of putting hurdles along the path of graft busters. When former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was slapped with seven charges of abuse of power, criminal breach of trust and money laundering in the RM42-million SRC International Sdn Bhd case, his now famous response was that he was a victim of selective prosecution. Umno echoed his words in very frightening ways, implying that the charges framed against him were politically motivated, another darling phrase of Malaysian politics. Najib is now in jail, after three courts, including the highest one in the land, found him guilty as charged, but the narrative of him being a victim of politics hasn’t gone…