Release the report
Release the Report: Secrecy Is Evasion! -- Charles Santiago. 31 March 2026
Malaysiakini's report referencing Bloomberg is not some trivial bureaucratic document. Instead, it concerns serious allegations that findings into the shareholdings controversy involving MACC chief Azam Baki were withheld from the public under the orders of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Citing unnamed sources, there are claims that key individuals were asked to delay releasing the probe's outcome. This is precisely the kind of information that, in any functioning democracy, must be subjected to immediate and transparent public scrutiny.
What we are witnessing instead is a familiar and deeply corrosive pattern: opacity justified by silence, and silence defended by power. If the report exists, and multiple credible sources suggest it does, then withholding it is not administrative caution; it is political obstruction.
There is no intellectually honest argument for keeping findings of this magni...