Some of you may remember news last year of a triad boss arrested under the ISA, that is Datuk Koo Tee Yam @ Ah Lek, and then mysteriously released just as soon as he was arrested for the second time. Today, we will share the information collected throughout the internet on this Boss of Bosses.Koo Tee Yam, age 45, is believed to control most of the underworld activities in Kuala Lumpur namely loan sharking, pirated discs and goods, prostitution, drugs, illegal gambling and murder. He has also diversified into many legitimate businesses such as discos, clubs, security companies, restaurants, construction and many more. Controlling assets worth more than RM1 billion, he is the head of the so called "Four Heavenly Kings" that controls a large criminal empire in West Malaysia.
Active in politics, it is believed that Koo Tee Yam has sent many triad members to infiltrate MCA, particularly the Bukit Bintang MCA division where he operates vice dens. He was so powerful that then MCA President Ling Liong Sik sent Federal Territory MCA Chief and Deputy Minister for Energy, Telecommunications and Multimedia Tan Chai Ho to enlist him in aid of MCA. However, Koo Tee Yam disliked Ling Liong Sik.
Thus, he started cultivating ties to current MCA Deputy President Chan Kong Choy (via their mutual friend Dato' Ta Kin Yan - businessman with ties to pirated disc syndicates) and the president Ong Ka Ting. He hated MCA Youth leader Ong Tee Keat, even sending gang members to create trouble in Ong Tee Keat's constituency Ampang Jaya. Subsequently, Ong Tee Keat has been increasingly sidelined by both MCA and UMNO (2006 MCA General Assembly and sniping with Hishamuddin).
During the 2004 General Election, Koo Tee Yam allegedly handed over RM20 million in donations to the Prime Minister personally. The meeting was supposedly arranged by former MCA Youth leader Dato' Seri Kee Yong Wee @ Kee Ah Mat. Since then, he has boasted that the police couldn't touch him. When the previous IGP came to power, incensed with what he heard, arrested Koo Tee Yam under the ISA. The newspapers had a field day on this story. A court found him innocent and ordered him released. The police however swooped in again to arrest him.
Three days later, the Federal Court (Justice Datuk Pajan Singh Gill, Justice Datuk Richard Malanjum and Justice Datuk Augustine Paul) ordered his unconditional released citing that the detainees rights had been circumvented by the police, which is the same argument given by hundreds of ISA detainess to the Federal Court - all shot down and many spent years if not decades under detention. Was corruption involved?
We may only speculate. Recently news broke out that our Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Johari was implicated in taking bribes to release three underworld bosses from detention. Can you connect the dots? Now, Koo Tee Yam's empire was breaking up into internal warfare. One of his liutenants Tan Yew Hock, the former special assistant to former Bukit Bintang MP Datuk Dr Lee Chong Meng, was shot dead at Jalan Pandan Jaya. Tan Yew Hock was Koo Tee Yam's personal assistant to handle matters with the authorities.
In order to get out and reassert control over his empire, Koo Tee Yam arranged a meeting with the Prime Minister's men including Datuk Johari. RM7 million exchanged hands to secure his freedom, and he left for Hong Kong shortly afterwards. That is the last we have heard of him. Or maybe he just had a well connected lawyer, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who has represented a legion of criminals and corrupt men but that is a story for another day.
After his release, his counsel released a statement on his behalf with these illuminating sentence:
We must stress here that Tee Yam and his family has the highest respect for our Malaysian judiciary and the Honourable Minister of Home Affairs and his Deputy. This statement is made purely to criticize the highhanded attitude of the Police and not on any other Government agencies. I am instructed and authorized to made this statement.
As usual, everything reported here are not fact nor news, it is just a collection and summary of various articles already published. Happy conspiracy theorizing!
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