Attempts to portray the 1MDB issue as resolved via the settlement between 1MDB and International Petroleum Investment Corporation (IPIC) has backfired, said DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang.

"The propaganda campaign committed the fatal sin of doing an 'overkill', like the claims by BN strategic communications director Abdul Rahman Dahlan, causing a boomerang as many basic questions about the 1MDB scandal remain unanswered," Lim said in a statement today.

He cited Rahman Dahlan saying that the settlement shows that 1MDB funds held in "units" in Singapore exists and will be entirely monetised to pay IPIC.

This remark has raised other questions, Lim said, such as those asked by his fellow opposition politicians...