AN OLD STORY FROM CIRCA 2023 - THE BANGLADESHI WORKERS MINISTER

 

The following is an old story. From around 2023 - THREE YEARS ago, But considering yesterday's blockbuster news this old story from 2023 is being viralled again. So remember that ALL the news, events mentioned herein are THREE YEARS old.  I am sort of redoing it, using pseudonyms.  RULE NO 1 - NO NAMES.

How Congress Party's S------n Became Billionaire In Foreign Workers Scandal : RM38 Million Cash , 200kg Gold Seized & RM 500 Million Account Frozen

According to those FINANCE GUYS, S------n, the Member of Parliament for Tapong since 2008, was appointed as the Secretary in the Congress Party Federal Territory by former Party president Sam Value in 1997. He had also served as deputy ministers under the Bodohwi and Bossku administrations. It was not until 2020 that he was made a full minister – Minister of Bangladeshi Workers – that came with “golden opportunities”.

Born and raised in gang-infested Centul, it wasn’t hard for S------n to click with the big boss of the Congress Party, a component party of the corrupted Barisan Rasuah coalition. After all, Sam Value was the infamous Godfather of Indian gangsters in the 1980s and 1990s, who served under the Mahazalim leadership during his 22 years rule (1981-2003).

When a Tamil Daily exposed in 2017 how S------n stole from the rental collection of the state Congress Party building, the then-Deputy Youth and Sports Minister brought mobsters to the media office and beat up its General Manager and staff. The attacks saw journalists and employees of the newspaper company left bleeding, injured and even suffered some broken teeth.

But unlike Bollywood films, there was no happy ending for the poor owner and staff of the Tamil Daily. The despicable Congress Party leader was as untouchable as Prime Minister Bossku, who himself had stolen billions in the Wan Em DB scandal before he lost power in the May 2018 General Election, and whose party – Dumbno – had ruled the country almost uninterrupted since independence in 1957.

Also known as “Ganja S------n”, he was never arrested, let alone prosecuted, but was let go with a slap on the wrist. As Bangla Workers Minister under the illegitimate backdoor PM MY (March 2020-August 2021) and PM Penyu (August 2021-November 2022), the Congress Party deputy president boldly enriched himself through corruption and money laundering.

In fact, S------n was so corrupt that he actually did not deny the involvement of Congress Party members in the misappropriation of funds from “PenjanaKayaRaya” involving a total of RM100 million. The programme-turned-scandal, under Prime Minister MY’s National Economic Recovery Plan, offered financial incentives of between RM600 and RM1,000 to employers for each employee or apprentice employed for up to six months.

But the biggest dirty money machine was the hiring of foreign workers into the country. On June 16, 2022, S------n said that Bangladesh and Malaysia had agreed to a limit of 25 agencies to recruit Bangladeshi workers for Malaysia. However, the next day, Bangladesh’s Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad rubbished the statement.

Mr Imran had also clarified that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by both countries did not mention anything about 25 agencies. Worse, despite admitting that there was a surplus of illegal Bangladeshi workers in the country, S------n had pushed to bring in more Bangladeshi. And the disgraced Bangla Workers Minister deliberately set a limit of 25 agencies to create monopoly.

The clueless, incompetent and corrupt regime of Prime Minister MY saw the cost of hiring foreign workers shoot up from about RM16,000 to RM20,000 per worker because various agencies involved had to “share the money at different levels”. The cost of hiring was incredibly ridiculous that Bangladesh refused to send any workers in 2020 – till a transparent system was in place.

The Bangladeshi government wanted the Malaysian government to connect to their online system to detect irregularities, but was declined. If the Malaysian labour market is allowed to link directly to the Bangladeshi system, it would kill syndicates and middlemen, ending the monopoly and corruption. It’s not rocket science why S------n rejected it – he was on top of the food chain of the lucrative market.

To get an idea of how the business has made S------n and his cronies mega rich, look no further than the latest operation that was carried out by a Multi-Agency Task Force (MATF) led by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Monday (July 24). Over RM38 million cash and 200kg of gold worth over RM60 million was seized along with 17 luxury vehicles such as Ferrari and Maserati.

Involving the police, Immigration Department, Customs Department, Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank), Inland Revenue Board (LHDN) as well as Cyber Security Malaysia (CSM), the special operation saw raids carried out in 34 locations in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor involving 315 officers. The man behind the crimes is “Dato Kilam”, the proxy and bag carrier for S------n.

Dato Kilam, also commonly known as “Dato Kilam”, was the trusted lieutenant of the former Bangla Workers Minister entrusted to launder dirty money from the Bangladeshi recruitment business. Also known for distributing Indian movies and bringing in artists from India to perform Tamil concerts in Malaysia, Kilam has finally been arrested and grilled by the MACC.

Also arrested was businessman-cum-politician “Datuk S------n Accomplice”, who is linked to former ruling party Berdua, and a “Newspaper Owner” (owner of Tamil Daily No. 2). More than 30 suspects have been identified by the anti-corruption agency, busting a syndicate involved in corruption, smuggling, money laundering and illegal tax evasion.

Crucially, the MACC has also frozen funds amounting to RM500 million linked to Kilam. If this crook has in his possession RM500 million, can you imagine the real wealth of ex-minister S------n? There’s a reason why S------n was known as “Ganja S------n”. In 2021, Kilam was exposed by a local newspaper as not only a criminal involved in illegal smuggling business, but was also a drug dealer.

Yes, the Congress Party gangster did not become a multi-millionaire from his venture into agriculture business – coconut cultivation – as he would like the people to believe. Rather, it was his venture into illegal businesses, using Dato Kilam as his proxy and cover, and links to underground Mafia that made him super-rich, so much so he believed he could buy his way out with money.

However, the arrogant politician will not be able to count on Dato Sri Rawana to bail him out this time. S------n was a traitor – one of the Barisan Rasuah MPs who had signed the Statutory Declaration to support rival Berdua president MY as prime minister after the 15th General Election produced a hung Parliament.

Not only S------n had betrayed the leadership of Dumbno president Dato 47 DNAA, but he has shown that he was an untrustworthy ally of the Dato Sri Rawana-led Gomen. In December 2022, he deliberately went out for lunch and did not return for the counting of votes in the deputy speaker election, causing Alice Wonderland of Pakatoons to receive only 146 votes instead of 148 two-thirds majority votes.

Like former premier Bossku, who is serving 12 years in prison and fined RM210 million for abuse of power, criminal breach of trust (CBT) and money laundering, S------n is another shameless crook who did not blink twice about stealing RM19 million disbursed for a chilli planting programme to Yayasan SayaKaya, a foundation led by himself.

Source : THOSE FINANCE GUYS

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