Dr Mahathir: I’ve excused Najib for crooked bridge but not 1MDB


KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pic) does not blame Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak over the failure of the crooked bridge project but says that the Prime Minister must account for 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

"I wrote about 1MDB but people say 'Oh, he is unhappy not with 1MDB but with the crooked bridge. I don't advocate the removal of a prime minister because he is too afraid of Singapore to build a crooked bridge.

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