THE damage to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, as a reformist , leakage fighting leader for the rest of Asia to emulate, will go up in smoke, as the Amin Bangla case is about to go international.
FOR decades, Amin Bangla has lived the life of a cat with nine lives, cleared by the police and MACC numerous times despite damaging evidence, and when charged in court to beating an underage person, and charged in court, the court files READ : has a trail, but no ending.
AMIN Bangla, a former executive director of Velocity Capital Partners Bhd, has for decades now been flipping back and forth public listed companies with his partner Victor Chin Boon Long, with impunity.
THAT impunity, seemed amplified, when back in May this year, Bloomberg reported READ: Malaysia pushes Bangladesh to stop probe of money laundering and labour rights violation against Aminul Islam, a major financer of Sheikh Hasina.
NOW, Bangladesh is a definitely a poor country, but it's interim leader, the 85 year old Muhammad Yunus, has given a response worthy of a Nobel Prize recipient and placed Malaysia in a bind.
IN a bind because the Malaysian request did not originated from Wisna Putra but strangely came from the Human Resource Ministry.
BANGLADESH, has been very consistent from the start, that they see Aminul Islam and Ruhul Amin Swapan who moonlights between Kl,Dubai and London, as partners in human right abuses of unskilled labour and on money laundering activities.
RUHUL Amin Swapan, of making hay when the sun shines, READ : Amin Bangla pointmen in foreign labour recruitment, Ruhul Amin Swapan, had RM174 million of his assets seized in Bangladesh.
THE talk in the street has been READ : if Ruhul Amin Swapan had accumulated RM278 million, how much you think Amin Bangla made?
BUT within the corridors of powers, they are concerns, eventually when details pour out, the MACC might find itself between a hard place and a rock.
THE main concern though is many aspects such the human resource ministry's correspondence on the Amin Bangla case, the Prime Minister had neither approved, sanctioned or even briefed in advance.
YET it is Anwar Ibrahim's reputation which has been placed on auction, when the Amin Bangla case goes international.
BEFORE the shit hits the fan, by hook or by crook, Amin Bangla's time on Malaysian soil has to be put to REST.
