Victor Chin and the “magic hands”
Unpacking the businessman's allegations and apology.
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On Thursday, Victor Chin Boon Long released two documents: a combative press statement attacking the police’s anti-money laundering (AMLA) task force, and an emotional apology namedropping politicians, former police chiefs, senior civil servants, and family.
Appended to both was a partially redacted list of 554 frozen accounts, many of these from companies Chin claims are not his.
The latest drop was clearly designed to shift the narrative.
Chin was trying to move from a businessman under investigation for alleged involvement in a “corporate mafia” to an innocent bystander caught in a dragnet.
But in such scenarios multiple angles can be simultaneously true.