COMMENT | A decade ago, at the height of the 1MDB scandal, multiple police reports were filed against individuals and organisations over an alleged conspiracy to unseat the “democratically elected government of Najib Abdul Razak”.

Among the accusers were cabinet ministers, politicians and wannabes, spin doctors, and sycophants who never missed a chance to pose for press photographers, holding their police reports outside station doors.

A few opposition lawmakers - notably Tony Pua, who was barred from leaving the country and investigated for allegedly plotting to destabilise the government - stood steadfastly, rebutting such claims.

Now, more than 10 years later, another conspiracy theory has made headlines, this time...