Mahathir insists it is with “great reluctance” that he is running for prime minister again. Not a few hundred dollars, not a few thousand dollars – he stole billions Mahathir MohamadThere is a certain irony to his vendetta against the current prime minister. Najib was groomed in office by Mahathir and was once described as his protege. According to Mahathir, the scandal was the moment he realised that Najib was “not the man I thought he was”. “There was corruption that happened when I was prime minister but not on this scale,” says Mahathir.

Source: The Guardian May 02, 2018 00:56 UTC