In Putrajaya, two senior executives of a statutory body's subsidiary walked into the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and did not walk out as free men — arrested on suspicion of abusing their authority to steer a RM370 million plantation share acquisition. Their detention, the first major action of a special task force formed in the wake of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Tabung Haji, signals that the machinery of public accountability has begun to turn in earnest. When public trust is monetised and institutional safeguards are bypassed, the reckoning tends to arrive not in the moment o