BANGKOK (REUTERS) - A banned Thai opposition party on Sunday (Feb 23) accused the former military junta of helping cover up Malaysia's multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, urging Thais to demand the truth ahead of a censure debate against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

The Future Forward Party, the third-largest party in Parliament, was dissolved on Friday by Thailand's Constitutional Court over a loan it took from its billionaire founder.

The dissolution was decried by democracy advocates as a way to weaken opposition to the government of Mr Prayut, who first came to power in a 2014 military coup and led a military junta until after elections last year that his pro-army party won.