MACC yesterday Electrified the country by making a rare arrest of a sitting chief minister on graft charges.
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, a leading opposition figure, was flanked by about a dozen Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officials and plainclothes policemen as he was escorted out of his office, with dozens of journalists swarming the place.
The arrest followed three months of accusations by Umno leaders that Mr Lim had benefited in buying his bungalow on Pinhorn Penang island from businesswoman Phang Li Koon, and that she was allegedly involved in business deals with the Penang state government that he leads.
The 55-year-old is secretary-general of the (DAP), the most popular ethnic Chinese party in Malaysia. The DAP won 38 seats in the federal Parliament in the 2013 General Election, forming the second-largest single bloc of MPs after Umno's 88 seats.
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