A courageous show by Zeti

PETALING JAYA: There were easily 80 Bank Negara senior officials and more than 100 journalists converging on the 16th floor of the central bank waiting to hear what governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz had to say.

The officials, seated on rows of chairs neatly arranged along the side of and behind Zeti, watched as the seasoned central banker fielded questions ranging from the economy to Bank Negara’s probe into 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and The Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) report of US$700mil (RM2.6bil) going into the personal account of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in March 2013.