FORMER prime minister Najib Razak has been branded a traitor by Utusan Malaysia, the Malay-language paper owned by his party Umno, following revelations that he had ordered the doctoring of an audit report for the Parliamentary Accounts Committee on the scandal-ridden 1MDB.

In an editorial penned by the newspaper’s team of editors under the pseudonym Awang Selamat, it also voiced its deep disappointment on the action of a group of former senior civil servants who were allegedly in cahoots with Najib.