The Dirty Dozen
A Ranking of the 12 Most Evil Persons in Malaysia
Who are the most evil and corrupt men and women in Malaysia? Here is a listing of the
Dirty Dozen, ranked in order of how evil the person is and his effect on society. The more
evil the person and the more damaging his effect on society, the higher up the scale they
go. Besides the top dog, the list includes his dark knights installed in every powerful
institution that is meant to protect and uphold democracy in the land. From the
Attorney-General to the Chief Justice, judges, the ACA, the Election Commission and the
police force, there is no institution which has not been corrupted by Mahathir. As Tunku
Abdul Rahman said after the sacking of the Lord President Tun Salleh Abas, we are all in
grave danger.
1. Mahathir Mohamed
The Father of Corruption
As the most
dictatorial prime minister ever, this man certainly tops the list of most evil persons
in Malaysia. He has practically destroyed all the institutions of democracy in Malaysia
including the independence of the judiciary and there are no more checks and balances to
his power. Concepts like justice, democracy and human rights mean little to him and he is
comfortable hobnobbing with brutal regimes like Myanmar and Cuba. Corruption and cronyism
flourish under his rule to an extent never before seen. Like a leader who corrupts all
those under him, most of the people holding high office in the country are corrupt and
beholden to him. The hallmark of Mahathir's rule is that corrupt men and women do not have
to pay the price of their corruption as long as they remain loyal to him. An egomaniac who
expounds large construction projects to cover his lack of spiritual values, he channeled
the resources of the country into economically senseless mega projects to feed his ego and
his cronies' pockets. Slowly but surely Mahathir's rule of corruption, cronyism and public-milking
privatization is lowering the standard of living in Malaysia and making life harder
for the ordinary citizen who must pay the ever increasing corruption tax. He will forever
be remembered for his cruel and inhuman treatment of his deputy Anwar Ibrahim whom he
jailed after Stalin and Hitler style show trials.
2. Daim Zainuddin
A rapacious robber baron whose greed is boundless
His low profile belie the immense power he wields in his hands and he has used his
power to amass fabulous wealth. Never ever satisfied, this rapacious robber baron seems to
want everything. A brazen attempt to force merge the country's banks to increase his share
of banking assets to dangerous levels was aborted only because Umno needed Chinese votes
win the elections. However billions
of ringgit in frozen Clob shares fell prey to his greed when badly treated foreign
investors had to pay him a cut to get their shares released. His economic plunder helps to
keep the Mahathir regime in power and fuel the money politics that the party machinery
runs on. Daim's lust for money is equal in intensity to Mahathir's lust for power.
With the number one man in the country power crazy and the number two man money mad, the
country is in "good" hands.
3. Mohtar Abdullah
A legal thug best describes this totally repulsive man
For sheer gusto in carrying out Mahathir's nefarious designs, Mohtar Abdullah has no
equal. In fact this most
repulsive Attorney-General in Malaysia's history doesn't need orders from the top to
go on a legal rampage, he sometimes pursue political opponents relentlessly on his own
initiative. He turned the office of the A-G into a dictator's tool of oppression to drag
to court perceived political critics and enemies. With the Chief Justice to select the
proper judge to hear the case, he just can't lose. Lim Guan Eng felt brunt of his legal
thuggery for merely criticizing his non-action over the statutory rape of a schoolgirl by
powerful politician Rahim Thamby Chik. Datuk Nallakarupan was charged with mandatory death
penalty for forgetting to renew his license for 100 lousy bullets because his life was to
be used as a bargaining chip to fabricate evidence against Anwar. Mohtar's zeal in
prosecuting politically unfavoured persons is matched by his stony inaction to go after
really corrupt big shots. This evil man is not above fabricating evidence to secure
convictions when real evidence is hard to come by in cases where innocent people are
dragged to court. Mohtar is evil without conscience, a perverter who turns good and
bad on its head landing hammer blows on society's moral shell with every politically
motivated prosecution. Although Eusoff Chin's perversion of the rule of law is greater
than Mohtar due to Eusoff's Chief Justice position, Mohtar has been ranked above him in
evil due to his extraordinary enthusiasm in committing injustice and wickedness to serve
the dictator and further his own worldly ambition.
4. Eusoff Chin
He sat on the bench to ensure its subservience to Mahathir
When the country's Chief Justice is corrupt what can you expect of the judicial system?
Eusoff Chin has been photographed
holidaying in New Zealand with highly successful lawyer V.K. Lingam who has never lost
a case in Eusoff Chin's court. But Eusoff's corruption goes has a far more sinister and
damaging effect than mere personal enrichment. He is used by Mahathir to select suitable
judges to hear important cases and to lean on judges to deliver the "correct"
judgement. Any judge whose judgement displease Eusoff is bound to find himself packing for
a posting in a backwater place and his career immediately stunted. Under this shady
perverter of justice the judiciary has won a smelly reputation locally and abroad as being
thoroughly compliant to the executive. With Eusoff at the helm the government has never
lost an important case. But for Mahathir, having Mokhtar as Attorney-General and Eusoff
Chin as Chief Justice is a dream come true and a combination not likely to be exceeded in
future.
5. Kadir Jasin
His newspapers were the propaganda machine of the ruling party
Kadir Jasin does not hold any high office to directly corrupt the institutions of
democracy but as Group Managing Director of the New Straits Times Press, his role in
corrupting minds is far-reaching indeed. In the dung filled pages of the
New Straits Times and Berita Harian, this sycophantic editor who once called for
foreign journalist to be arrested under ISA for reporting the truth tried to mould public
opinion by hiding the excesses of the ruling party and heaping undeserved praise on
corrupt leaders to keep them in power. The strategies used include
biased opinion pieces, omission of all negative reporting of the establishment, public
airing of unsubstantiated allegations against political opponents without right of reply,
sycophantic adulation of the prime minister, reporting only the negative points of the
opposition and playing them up, outright lying and filtering foreign viewpoints for the
favourable comments only. By covering up abuses and protecting the guilty from public
exposure the mass media helps to perpetuate and deepen abuses and corruption. Kadir Jasin
was certainly at the forefront of this information web of deceit until he was sacked by
his political masters for not being sycophantic enough and daring to lose market share by
feeding intelligent readers with politically motivated rubbish.
6. Augustine Paul
A monster judge rode roughshod over all principles of jurisprudence to
convict Anwar
Augustine Paul was handpicked to do a specific dirty job, that is to find Anwar Ibrahim
guilty of some fanciful trumped-up charges. Anxious not to disappoint his political
masters on his first important assignment, he proceed to trample truth and justice in his
courtroom in the crudest possible manner in his overzealous mission to convict the fallen
politician. He ran a banal
kangaroo court which was so blatantly biased that it will forever shame the nation in
the eyes of the world. His parody of justice evoked memories of the infamous show trials
of Stalin and Hitler.
The evil of a man who is willing to send an innocent man to jail cannot be glossed
over. One may argue that Augustine Paul was a puppet judge who had no choice. This is a
false rationalization as he would never have been selected as a puppet judge if he wasn't
rotten to the core and trusted to give the pre-determined judgement. He could have
exercised his independence once on the case and there would be nothing that Mahathir can
do to remove him without triggering world outrage. But why was Paul selected to grace this
rogues' gallery instead of Lamin Yunus although he (Paul) has been known to betray justice
in only one celebrated case while Lamin is an old government dog with a string of biased
judgements to his name? And shouldn't Ariffin Jaka share the limelight? The fact is that
the repercussion from Paul's evil deed was greater than Lamin's as he robbed the nation of
a great leader who would have brought some morality, transparency and justice back into
the government. Ariffin Jaka at least conducted the semblance of a
real trial allowing all material evidence to be heard, even those highly embarrassing
to his political masters. The way that Paul bulldozed the flimsy prosecution's case
through while suppressing material evidence from being aired speaks of a pure
unadulterated evil that
makes the skin crawl. He held the future of the nation in his hands but he chose to
sell his soul to the devil for a pittance.
7. Omar Mohammad
With a corrupt man at the helm, the last bastion of democracy fell to
Mahathir
The name of Datuk Omar Mohammad does not ring a bell to most people and this is
understandable as he is the Chairman of the Election Commission which comes to the fore to
conduct the general elections every 5 years. But although rarely in the news, this
is one of the most important instrument of democracy. When all checks and balances have
been removed in the administration of government, the general election is the last bastion
of democracy and the final check and balance to a power hungry dictator. It is the time
when power returns to the people who can theoretically kick out an unjust government in
free and fair elections.
This is in theory but the sad reality is that even the Election Commission has been
corrupted by Mahathir. Datuk Omar's declaration the Commission is independent rings
hollow in the light of the 1999 general elections. In the first place gerry mandering of
electoral boundaries to concentrate parliamentary seats in areas of greater support
ensured that it would be very difficult to topple the ruling party. The 1999 elections was
anything but free and fair. A massive 650,000 newly registered voters who were generally
perceived as critical of the government were not allowed to vote on the shaky premise that
it took the EC a mind boggling nine months to register them. The EC also failed to correct
the total monopoly of the mass media by the ruling party, the unfair media blitz and the
stirring of racial and religious fears by Barisan Nasional politicians to garner votes.
The Election Commission failed the people and as its head, Omar Mohammad must be held
responsible for the fall of the last bastion of democracy.
8. Ahmad Zaki Husin
An agency to flush out corruption or to clean the corrupt?
Ahmad Zaki is the Director-General of the Anti-Corruption Agency. Under Mahathir this
body has become severely degraded in the eyes of the public as a blindfold toothless tiger
when it comes to going after the big fish. Instead of fearlessly pursuing and exposing
corruption without fear or favour this agency seems to drag its feet when big shots are
involved. Worse, the ACA has frequently been abused as a weapon to
investigate and pull down political opponents of the ruling party. To add insult to
injury, we now have corrupt slimy politicians using the ACA to claim themselves pristine
after a "cleansing investigation" by the agency.
The ACA's most celebrated failure is its inability to conclude investigations into the
Perwaja Steel case and bring charges against Tan Sri Eric Chia who lost frightening
billions for the steel giant under suspicious circumstances. This is despite a devastating
auditor's report which detailed fraudulent financial transactions with dummy companies.
After four years of "investigation", one should not hold one's breath that Eric
Chia will be brought to justice anytime soon. It also sank into a listless stupor over
Anwar's four police reports with documented evidence against political bigwigs. On the
other hand the ACA suddenly sprang to life over Datuk Murad's wild and
unsubstantiated allegations of billions in Anwar's "master accounts"
although to date it has managed to dig up nothing. Other high profile cases of corruption
such as Eusoff Chin's well-known holiday with lawyer V.K. Lingam never saw the light of
day although pictures of their fond relationship have been on the internet for years.
Why is Ahmad Zaki ranked one step below Omar Muhammad on the scale of evil? Corruption
is after all an insidious cancer which affects everybody and happens far more frequently
than general elections. The ordinary citizen pays the price of big time corruption in
higher prices of utilities and goods and the wastage of public funds. But one must
remember that the ACA reports to the Attorney-General and the Prime Minister now, not
directly to parliament. This means that it derives the corruption of the overlords it is
subservient to. When the PM wants to sit on a case of prima facie corruption, there is
nothing much that the Director-General can do while other entities such as the Election
Commission, the A-G , the Chief Justice and the judges can exercise their independence but
choose to sell their souls to the devil. Still, one cannot be too lenient on Ahmad Zaki.
Anyone who is contend to sit in a post and willingly play along inflicting harm onto
society must himself be a member of the dark domain.
9. Ling Liong Sik
He is the epitome of village headman bought over with money and whisky
to keep the natives in line
As the most useless
leader ever to do nothing for the people he represents, Ling Liong Sik has no equal.
This political hack is only interested in maintaining the status quo while he goes about
the serious business of gathering wealth. And what an embarrassment of riches it has been
with his son coming from nowhere to be an instant billionaire at the age of 27. On issues
affecting the Chinese, you will not find this timorous leader speaking out whether it is
the Nipah virus devastating the pig industry, non-acceptance of Chinese High School
Certificates or criticism of too many Chinese movies in Astro. In fact he is ready and
willing to accept erosion in Chinese rights and mortgaging of Chinese future to maintain
his personal position, a fine example being his declaration that TAR college will not be
upgraded to university status. Ling is the towering epitome of the village headman who has
been bought over by outside colonizers to keep the natives in line. Besides a genius at
doing nothing, his other skills include the fine art of carrying the Prime Minister's
balls on whom he depends to protect his position and keep a lid on his corruption. It must
be a bitter irony to the Chinese that this bogus leader who claims to represent them is
elected from a Malay dominated electorate. To Mahathir he is the perfect running dog in
the so-called partnership of the Barisan Nasional - a convenient eyewash for power sharing
and an apologist for Umno, never asking for anything for the Chinese and never critical of
any government policies against Chinese interests. A more putrid, self-serving politician
you could not find.
10. Samy Vellu
Architect of the MAIKA Telecom shares scandal, Samy Vellu proves that corruption pays in Malaysia
Samy Vellu is to the Indians what Ling Liong Sik is to Chinese. After 21 years of Samy
Vellu at the helm of the MIC, Indians remain economically backward and left behind in
Malaysia's economic growth. Trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, they have no financial,
commercial or industrialized structure, marginalised in every economic field and in danger
of becoming an underclass. Despite the burden on the low income, Samy Vellu goes round the
country opening and justifying road tolls, a super-apologist for the rich cronies set on
milking the public and derisively berating those who criticize the proliferation of toll
booths. His shinning achievement is the extension of Kamunting Berhad's concession to
collect toll at Jalan Kuching in exchange for nothing despite the concession period having
expired and company having recouped many times its original investment. An let's not
forget Samy Vellu's role in hijacking MAIKA's Telecom shares to three unknown companies
controlled by his proxy in 1990 thus depriving the agency entrusted with uplifting Indians
of an estimated RM70 million in profits.
Although Samy Vellu has done nothing for his race and got rich in the process just like
Ling, he is a little more outspoken than the timorous Ling who would never stick an inch
of his political neck out for the people he represents. Ling must certainly be ranked
above Samy in evil as he betrays a larger group of people (30% of the population as
against 10%) and he has enriched himself far more than Samy.
11. Rahim Noor
The Chief of Police turned out to be a lawless thug but he beat one
prisoner too many
Rahim Noor was the Inspector-General of Police serving Mahathir faithfully by misusing
the police force until he was forced to resign after beating up a deputy prime minister in
prison. After shaming the police force and the nation he did not resign until his
repulsive action was about to be exposed by a Royal Commission of Inquiry. And let's have
no illusion that this Royal Commission was convened voluntarily by Mahathir to find out
the truth. In true Mahathiran fashion he tried to protect the guilty and the corrupt until
the insistent demands by the opposition and international critics were so great that there
was no choice but to sacrifice Rahim Noor. But to this day the shame of the nation is not
redeemed as Rahim Noor is
treated with kid's glove by the corrupt judicial system and will no doubt escape with
a wrist slap.
Rahim Noor is certainly a willing evil minion of Mahathir. Under him the police were
cruel and oppressive, sometimes summarily executing criminals and beating up people in
detention to the point of death. The Special Branch was in charge of fabricating evidence
from the dungeon of their confession factory with Muslim intellectual Munawar Anees as
their most famous guest. Through Munawar's affidavit we are given a horrifying glimpse of
torture Malaysian style. Rahim is not ranked higher on the evil scale because he is no
longer in a position to influence matters. Also the behaviour of the police does not seem
to have improved with his resignation which means that his influence wasn't that great.
12. Ummi Hafilda Ali
She plays a virgin in the light but needs no urging in the night
"Youthful feminine face hiding rotten starving soul" best describes Ummi
Hafilda Ali. When she declared brazenly in a press statement that she was still a virgin
in denial of media gossip about her, headlines ricocheted from that bold declaration and
the nation gasped in disbelief. But subsequent testimony in court during Anwar's trial by
a man who was intimate with her in London show the deeply deceitful nature of Ummi and the
manner in which she can shamelessly lie through her teeth in public.
Disowned by her family and revealed as a scheming, manipulative, evil woman who would
stop at nothing to lie and cheat her way through life, she was the ideal person to be used
by corrupt politicians in their conspiracy to destroy Anwar. They found in her the raw
evil with the stomach to make vile accusations against an innocent man and even to draw
the hapless Azizan Abu Bakar into her web of deceit. Totally without conscience and
thinking nothing of shamelessly promoting her wicked lies in public, she was a cesspool of
depravity and immorality which made her the darling of like-minded Umno politicians. Her
declaration that she was motivated by religion and loyalty rings hollowly in the recesses
of her empty soul.
Whatever her motivation for taking part in the conspiracy to destroy a deputy prime
minister who was fallen for standing in the way of corruption and cronyism, history has
assured Ummi a place in the dark halls of shame after her brief moment of notoriety in a
Malaysia made morally hollow by corrupt and evil men.
So here we have a rogue's gallery of the worse that Malaysia can produce. It comes as
no surprise that most of the corruption has stemmed from the font of evil, Mahathir
himself. Evil men are useful and necessary to Mahathir. They will willingly do his bidding
no matter how odious and they can be blackmailed on their past if they ever have a change
of heart. So it is evil, corrupt men who fluorish under his rule and advance to positions
of power and wealth. Working in co-operation with each other under the tyrant, they ensure
that Mahathir, his family and his cronies continue the feast of corruption, cronyism and
nepotism at the expense of ordinary Malaysians.
[This article is reproduced from Seachange
Malaysia]
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