'Deja vu' of 1MDB days, says Pua as cops probe alleged plot to topple govt
Published: Feb 27, 2026 2:41 PM
Updated: 5:41 PM
Former DAP MP Tony Pua has drawn parallels between the police investigation into an alleged conspiracy to topple the government and his own persecution during the 1MDB era, calling on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to put a stop to what he described as "ridiculous nonsense".
Pua, whom police investigated and barred from leaving the country during the 1MDB scandal for alleged conspiracy in activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy, said the latest probe felt unsettlingly familiar.
"Sounds like deja vu. I was barred from leaving the country. Over Najib's 1MDB, great, great, great grandmother of all scandals, of course.
"Now, the police are again investigating an alleged conspiracy to topple the government, involving a purported ‘influential individual’ and an international media agency. Over the Azam Baki and MACC 'corporate mafia' scandal?” he said on Facebook.
Pua also took a direct swipe at Anwar, who built his political career on the reformasi movement.
"Our reformasi PM must stop this ridiculous nonsense," said the former political secretary to then-finance minister Lim Guan Eng.
Pua was barred from travelling to Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on July 22, 2015, after then-inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar informed the Immigration Department's director-general, via a letter dated July 15, 2015, that the politician was being investigated under Section 124B of the Penal Code on an alleged activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy.
He was investigated as a witness, not a suspect.
Pua was not alone in facing such measures. Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli, who was also an ardent critic of 1MDB, and The Edge Media Group's owner Tong Kooi Ong, were similarly banned.
The group publishes The Edge Financial Daily and The Edge Weekly, both of which have covered the 1MDB controversy extensively.
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