Identified by Rafizi, Mr ‘R’ is a lawyer.
Ramanan Ramakrishnan was like a cat on hot bricks after businessman-turned-fugitive Victor Chin Boon Long publicly declared a war on Mr ‘R’, a so-called Member of Parliament from Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) – return the RM9.5 million pocketed as a middleman after failed to resolve his “corporate mafia” woes, or else the identity of Mr ‘R’ would be revealed.
With only two MPs in PKR with the initial ‘R’ – Ramanan and Rafizi Ramli – naturally, fingers were pointed at Human Resources Minister Ramanan. His talent in apple polishing, PKR president Anwar Ibrahim saw the Prime Minister’s endorsement for the bootlicker’s winning one of three vice presidents in the party election last year and was awarded the minister portfolio.
Mr ‘R’ can be anyone but definitely not Rafizi, because the former PKR deputy president had already lost power and became the Premier’s fiercest critic at the time (October 2025) Victor Chin handed over the cash to Mr ‘R’. It’s not rocket science that Mr ‘R’ must be someone very close to the most powerful man who walks the corridors of power to whisper soft, romantic, or intimate contracts or projects.
Going berserk like a mad dog, Ramanan slammed Victor Chin as a devil whom he had never met, let alone received the RM9.5 million (out of a total RM10 million) cash. The errand boy of PM Anwar had also targeted Rafizi, calling the former economy minister a failed leader and accusing him of attacking the party while appearing to defend corporate interests.
Amusingly, Ramanan also accused Rafizi of mobilising cyber troopers to create narratives that he was colluding with Victor Chin in the corporate mafia scandal. Little did Ramanan realise that in his haste and desperate attacks on Rafizi, his silly overreaction had not only given Rafizi’s credentials a boost but also created the perception that Ramanan was indeed involved, one way or another.
After all, Ramanan, a former treasurer-secretary of MIC (Malaysian Indian Congress), had in the past tried to scam money with broken promises of “fixing” problems. In 2014, he was shamed in a legal dispute where he was accused of defrauding psychiatrist Dr M Mahadevan of RM5.5 million. Ramanan subsequently returned the funds and resigned from his post within the MIC party following the controversy.
Anwar Ibrahim then happily picked up the MIC trash – admitting Ramanan into PKR, before recycling, nurturing and promoting him as PKR vice-president. Narcissist Anwar added Ramanan to his collection largely because he needed an Indian leader to hoodwink ethnic Indians for their votes, and partly because he was impressed with Ramanan’s flagrant bootlicking.
The best part is Mr ‘R’ mentioned by Victor Chin, was not even Ramanan. In fact, Rafizi did not actually accuse Ramanan of being Mr ‘R’. Rafizi was merely toying with Ramanan through a naughty narrative – Mr ‘R’ sounds like Ramanan, feels like Ramanan, and smells like Ramanan. Yes, the moron Ramanan gave Rafizi the hole to poke into the link between Anwar’s party, PKR, and the corporate mafia.
Mr ‘R’ is actually Sandraruben Neelamagham (also known as Ruben, hence Mr ‘R’). Identified by Rafizi, Sandraruben is a lawyer whose role was nothing but an intermediary (operator) between a “corporate mafia” group and shareholders of NexG in a boardroom tussle between Anwar’s crony, Farhash Wafa Salvador and Ishak Ismail, another crony of Anwar from the 1990s.
Since April 2024, the 39-year-old Sandraruben has rapidly accumulated directorships in several public-listed companies – Executive Director of HeiTech Padu Berhad (3 April, 2024), Executive Director of Key Alliance Group Berhad (22 April 2024), Executive Director of XOX Technology Berhad (7 June 2024), and Deputy Chairman of Vizione Holdings Berhad (10 October, 2025).
The scandal exploded when NexG’s executive chairman and founder, Abu Hanifah Noordin, exposed how his executive power was suspended after he objected to the board’s proposal to subcontract the company’s government contracts to third parties. The “daylight robbery” involved a plan to subcontract NexG’s technologies to a competing public-listed firm – HeiTech Padu Bhd, a company linked to Farhash.
‘Ruben’ Sandraruben, an Executive Director at HeiTech Padu, was appointed as a corporate advisor to NexG Berhad while holding his competitor position, raising conflict-of-interest concerns. Together with other directors aligned to Farhash, Sandraruben tried to transfer NexG’s intellectual property to HeiTech and sabotaged the company’s operations.
According to Hanifah, Ruben reports to a bigger boss (believed to be Farhash) who attempted to subcontract two key technological components of NexG’s secure identity ecosystem, namely the Chip Operating System (COS) for Secure ID Applications and the QR Code Digital Identity Integration Project – with a combined value of more than RM300 million – to HeiTech.
Farhash Wafa Salvador, former political aide to PM Anwar Ibrahim, acquired a 15.9% stake (16.1 million shares) in tech firm HeiTech Padu Berhad in March 2024 through his company, Rosetta Partners. This raised controversy over government contracts, especially when the purchase happened shortly before HeiTech Padu announced a RM190.01 million contract from the Road Transport Department (JPJ).
Together with Chong Loong Men, who was made executive director in NexG by Farhash, Ruben began intervening in NexG’s procurement process and operation decisions, bypassing Hanifah in giving direct instructions to technical staff and reprimanding staff for not carrying out their wishes. Both used coercion, threats and intimidation to force directors and key management officers to resign.
“I was made aware that representations and threats had allegedly been made to certain individuals that they could face investigations by the authorities, including potential PDRM (Police Di-Raja Malaysia) and AMLA-related actions, should they refuse to step down,” – Abu Hanifah said, referring to the Malaysian police and alleged anti-money laundering offences. This lends credence to Bloomberg’s report about the practise of corporate mafia.
Chong Loong Men, a former prosecutor and Securities Commission officer named in a Bloomberg report as one of the players in the corporate mafia, was part of seven newly appointed directors entrusted to represent Farhash’s interest in NexG. Using a backdoor, insiders say Farhash and his proxies can control the company by appointing directors to the NexG board.
It was only after NexG founder Hanifah threatened to retaliate with “disclosure of voice recordings of Chong, Ruben, ‘Mr X and Mr A’ to prove my innocence, the truthfulness of my statements and their wrongdoings” that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was forced to intervene, and told “bagman” Farhash to back off. But the damage is done.
Victor Chin, who has been identified in Bloomberg’s report as one of the players in the country’s corporate mafia, had released a 40-page document outlining an alleged timeline of events, claiming that a PKR MP identified as ‘Mr R’ requested RM10 million to resolve the issue, although he said he had only managed to provide RM9.5 million.
Chin’s threat to expose the identity of Mr ‘R’ if his RM9.5 million is not returned by the end of March 2026 may see two things happen. First, if Chin keeps quiet after the deadline, it could mean either that he has been neutralised or that he has gotten his money back. With the 16th General Election around the corner, PM Anwar may order his crony Farhash to fix the problems, who in turn would order his errand boy Ruben to return Victor Chin’s RM9.5 million.
Second scenario – Chin reveals the identity of Mr ‘R’ as he could not cough up the cash because the money had all been used up. Victor Chin may unveil more damaging materials such as video or audio recordings implicating not only Mr ‘R, but also may link Mr ‘R’ to Farhash, and even PKR or Anwar Ibrahim directly. That’s why Chin is in hiding whilst the police are aggressively hunting him to silence him.
In the same breath, the Prime Minister is desperately and deliberately trying to divert attention from his scandal by screaming about the Iran War. From shamelessly sucking up to Pakistan for its effort to mediate a ceasefire between the US and Iran to wastefully flying to Indonesia just to chat with Prabowo about the Middle East’s conflict, Anwar is pretending as if he never met his bagman, Farhash.
However, the Prime Minister cannot wash his hands of the scandal, nor can he claim that he had never met Farhash, like how jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak lied about his relationship with partner-in-crime Jho Low in the infamous 1MDB scandal. It’s also not hard to see that today’s corporate mafia is merely an upgraded version of Anwar’s crony capitalism in the 1990s.
Keeping silence isn’t an option, and making Victor Chin a scapegoat isn’t going to sell. Heads of real sharks need to roll. “I was told that the payment of RM9.5 million would be passed to the Corporate Mafia gang to make them happy, stop the hostilities against my people, and also give me a second chance to live,” – Chin said. Only a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) could help the Anwar administration. – Finance Twitter