Kit Siang wants RCI to probe ‘foiled plan’ to arrest Najib in 2015

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PETALING JAYA: Lim Kit Siang is calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe a claim that a plan to arrest Najib Razak over the 1MDB scandal in 2015 had been foiled by the sacking of two senior civil servants.

The DAP supremo said that he too had been told of Najib’s impending arrest then, which he had described as the “Week of Long Knives of July 2015”.

“Malaysians have a right to know what happened,” he said in a statement, referring to the claim made by a former aide to Najib in a book he authored.

“And only a Royal Commission of Inquiry can undertake the job.”

Lim had previously called for an RCI to look into the “Week of Long Knives of July 2015”.

Earlier today, FMT reported a plot to arrest Najib in the middle of a Cabinet meeting which was foiled a day before it was supposed to be carried out.

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