MAHATHIR THE “BILLIONAIRE BUSINESSMAN?”
(the real tamrin ghafar baba) – In recent days Raja Petra Kamarudin and Datuk Seri Najib have been posting some interesting articles on their social media platforms. https://www.malaysia-today.net/2020/07/05/dr-mahathirs-rm200-billion-business-empire-before-1mdb/ & https://www.facebook.com/157851205951/posts/10157183319445952/
These articles are about the most successful businessman ever to live in Malaysia but many Malaysians still don’t know much of this business empire, while some were not even born yet at that era. Before we analyse the details of this man’s business empire let’s quickly fast forward to the recent Pakatan Harapan’s 22-month reign of incompetence after the GE14.
During this period we saw the emergence of former New Straits Times editor A KADIR JASIN – who often would chime in as his capacity as the Media Advisor for the coalition. Long before he became a media advisor, Kadir Jasin has been a proxy for the most hard-working billionaire businessman of Malaysia. As others especially the Malays according to this billionaire are just plain lazy.
A well-known blogger, Kadir Jasin is also known for his loyalty not just to former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir but also to Tun Daim Zainuddin, often coming in with all the right noises from time to time. While we all know he did not do a good job considering how Pakatan Harapan was consistently torn apart by the local media from all sides, one must wonder why he’s still relevant despite being a retired media practitioner.
Based on new evidence that has appeared and including Kadir’s own confession on hi FB account (which he later removed) he has been holding wealth on behalf of a certain person. And that person is non other than Tun Dr Mahathir under camouflage of the political party UMNO.
Recently, details regarding Kadir Jasin’s shareholding of MRCB (Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad) during the golden days of crony capitalism in the 90’s surfaced online, suggesting that he was not just a mouthpiece of Tun Dr Mahathir, but one of his proxies and cronies as well.
