Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar bin Radin has never shied away from controversy, with his glib statements on both Malaysian politics and culture courting vitriol on social media and embarrassment to his party, UMNO. The latest emerging scandal making the rounds on Facebook is a screencap from his wife, actress Zizie Ezette’s Instagram account.
The mobile photo ostensibly shows Zizie and Bung Mokhtar celebrating her birthday in Manila a while ago – but the screencap also juxtaposes that Instagram shot with another, blurrier image of someone looking very much like Bung Mokhtar gambling in a casino. Allegations of gambling by a Muslim Malay politician are heavy ones indeed.
Storm in a teacup? A Photoshop job? Something else for the Barisan Nasional spin machine to tamp down? We’ll have to see how this develops on Facebook, Twitter and beyond.
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