Malaysia Cracks Down on Whistleblowers

Earlier this year, scrambling for funds to make payment on its RM42 billion debt, the struggling 1Malaysia Development Bhd. turned to the government-backed Muslim pilgrim fund, which pays to send thousands of Malays on the haj to Mecca each year.

1MDB sold an acre and a half of land from the 70-acre land bank 1MDB acquired from the government for RM188.5…