NST Leader: RM4.5 trillion graft hole

Malaysia’s newspapers had screaming headlines to match. Most importantly, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim issued a bold order to enforcement agencies: bring the culprits to book. A shocked and angry nation has been put on watch. What other emotion can Malaysians express when they have been told, by the government no less, to penny-pinch through inflation and all, while some near and far from power have been on a fleecing frolic.