KUALA LUMPUR, 03 Aug 2014:

Former information minister Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin has accused the Chinese of being the most corrupt in the country. He said the culture was found in both MCA and DAP and they were the same at the core.
“The Malays do not have enough money to be corrupt. The act of being corrupt among themselves would also be too shameful to bear,” he said in a blog post.
Zainuddin, who was also Utusan Malaysia former group chief editor, said this when explaining why DAP was fuming at Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim’s reluctance to step down from his post, arguing that DAP was not able to profit from his administration.
The hope from the Chinese businessmen from DAP, he said, was that there would be opportunities to make money from the Khalid administration.
Zainuddin went on to claim that opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who was previously the nation’s finance minister, understood this strategy very well.
PKR and DAP cronies and supporters, he alleged, hoped for big business opportunities in an economically-vibrant Selangor. Khalid however, Zainuddin said, was professional and incorruptible.
“They hoped that they would benefit just like how Umno, MCA and MIC had when BN ruled the state, but Khalid’s shortcomings as a politician had made him incorruptible and that had disappointed PR leaders.
“Khalid never liked the habit and had stayed away from it, which made him unpopular when he was in Umno.
Zainuddin said Khalid’s performance was the epitome of what PAS wanted in a government and this left the Islamist party confused as to why Anwar had decided to drop Khalid and replace him with Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
He said this was the main fact Khalid was deemed “useless” by DAP and vouched for Dr Wan Azizah was because the latter was easier to “manipulate.”
“She would be easier to use to channel money for political gains using her husband’s expertise in which he had learnt during his time with Umno.
“If BN had done it, what was wrong if PR does it as well as long as they can get Khalid out of the way.”
Khalid, Zainuddin also said, could can no longer be classified as an Anwar loyalist after Wan Azizah was announced as his successor.