From breaches of the movement control order to theft of public funds, the general feeling among Malaysians is that the well-heeled and well-connected seem to get away with such offences easily.
IT may be a cold, wet start to 2021 but the heat is rapidly rising in our ever-sweltering political scene amid the unveiling of a sizzling new scandal involving the smuggling in of questionable quality meat and labelling it as halal.
The well-connected syndicate has allegedly been bribing senior officers from the Customs Department and several government bodies to import meat from non-halal certified slaughterhouses in China, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Spain and Mexico.