Recently Malaysian PM Najib paid an unpublicised visit to Singaore, even going so far as to leave from an East coast town in order to avoid media attention.

Was he asking the Singapore Government for that $600 million plus in his bank account to be unfrozen? His plea did not exactly fall on deaf ears, clearly.  Although, the Singapore authorities are acutely aware that if Singapore is branded a centre for money laundering, its financial centre status will evaporate overnight and with it the Island State’s prosperity

Informed sources indicate that he has so far been able to secure a temporary respite in the criminal investigation into the bank where his stolen money has been frozen. What threat could have induced  Singapore to make even that concession and so put the island State’s future at risk?

Only one explanation exists. Singapore depends wholly on water from Johore to supply the water needs of its people and industry. Did Najib theaten to restrict or even cut off this vital supply on which life in the Island depends?

From a normal national leader such a gross threat would be inconceivabe. But from a man who has massive-scale crimes on his record it may have been enough to create a pause. Especially as Singapore knows that other financial centres and Governments and criminal investigators wll soon move against Najib and, in so doing, remove the source of any such manic threats.

An afterthought.  Solar powered de-salination plants, though still expensive, have developed to the point where large scale processing of salt water is possible. Whatever else, Singapore has lots and lots of sea water