An inconvenient baggage for DAP
They have refused to give up despite the many twists and turns, hope and disappointment, as well as support and betrayal in the 16 years since his body was found in a crumpled heap after falling from the 14th floor of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency (MACC) in Shah Alam.
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