A Malaysiakini reader asked whether Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein thinks he is a James Bond with a “very particular set of skills” to hunt down 1MDB-linked businessperson Jho Low in China.

Hishammuddin’s offer to track down fugitive financier Jho Low in China to see closure o to the 1MDB case is indeed intriguing.

In the first place, will Jho Low’s return to Malaysia result in the closure of the 1MDB scandal?

What is more intriguing is whether Hishammuddin will be the first Minister in the last Najib Cabinet to admit that the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal is not a fake news, concoction by his political enemies or an international conspiracy to topple Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minster of Malaysia, but was “kleptocracy at its worst” and which plunged Malaysia into infamy and ignominy as a global kleptocracy.

If Hishammuddin wants to see a closure to the 1MDB case, and justice done, shouldn’t he be offering proper advice to his cousin, Najib?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Tuesday, 23rd October 2018)