| Influential former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday criticised the takeover of crisis-hit Malaysia Airlines by the country's sovereign wealth fund as a recipe for more losses by the carrier. Sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional, which has controlled the airline for years via a 70 percent ownership stake, said last Friday it plans to buy all remaining shares, de-list the stock, and take the carrier private before undertaking a "complete overhaul".
The fund acted after the double tragedies of flights MH370 and MH17 pushed Malaysia Airlines (MAS) -- which had already been losing money for years -- to the financial brink. "Khazanah has been in full control of Malaysia Airlines all this time. And all this time Malaysia Airlines has been bleeding profusely," Mahathir, prime minister from 1981-2003, wrote on his blog...............................................Full Article: Source
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