Former prime minister of Malaysia and a protégé of Mahathir Mohamad. He was toppled in the 2018 election by a coalition led by Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim. He is serving a lengthy prison term following prosecutions by the MACC, Malaysia's anti-corruption commission, for involvement in one of the world's biggest-ever financial frauds: the looting of a state fund called 1MDB, exposed in 2015, in which billions of dollars were stolen by well-connected insiders.
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.