Two questions that bugged me when I saw the film “Man on the Run” were:
- Why did Najib Razak agree to take part in the film which was an admission that the 1MBD scandal was one of the worst and biggest in history, which Transparency International named as one of the “25 corruption scandals that shook the word” in 2019 and the United States Attorney-General described as “kleptocracy at its worst”?
- Najib’s nterview with the director and executive producer Cassius Micheal Kim where he said “Maybe I, I was too trusting perhaps, uh, but, uh, it was required because, uh, the Minister of Finance i, the sole shareholder 1MDB and my signature was required. Uh, but I never, never imagined that there was, uh, part of a scheme to defraud, uh, 1MDB at all” and “In a sense I failed in, I trusted the wrong people. Yes. but the system failed me as well. I think that has to be noted. The system that was supposed to support me, failed me, fail the people on Malaysia” which were admissions that the 1MDB scandal was one of the largest corruption scandals in the world – the first time that Najib had made such an admission.
These two questions still bugged me.