The 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 had not just achieved the peaceful, democratic and historic result of changing the Federal Government for the first time in the nation’s 61-year history, it had changed Malaysia in many ways.

For one, two books this week on the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal would have been banned in Malaysia and Malaysians would have to get them overseas and smuggle them into country to share the sordid tales of crime and corruption of powerful people in Malaysia!

The two books are Clare Rewcastle Brown’s “The Sarawak Report – The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose” and Wall Street Journal’s two award-winning journalists Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale”.
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