{"id":2157,"date":"2008-07-06T22:25:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/07\/06\/samy-hounded-by-maika-investors\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T22:25:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T14:25:47","slug":"samy-hounded-by-maika-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/07\/06\/samy-hounded-by-maika-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Samy hounded by MAIKA investors"},"content":{"rendered":"
MAIKA will be an albatross around the neck of MIC for as long as the investors are not refunded and those responsible are bought to justice. Samy can expect more such receptions as long as MAIKA issue can be used to raise the emotions of the community. Just mention MAIKA, and you most likely will see the amount of anger, contempt and hurt that people seem to register. Whether the person was actually a victim had become irrelevant. It (MAIKA) has spread like a virus, affecting the community in general. <\/p>\n

If we remember correctly, Samy Vellu announced that the investors will be refunded with some amount, but its going to be a year now. Habuk pun tarak. When people want to ask, these guys ran away (that’s what I understand from “drove away”).<\/p>\n

Well, if anyone have more information on the incident, please share. Meanwhile, read the article that appeared in the Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n

JOHOR BARU: A commotion broke out in a temple compound here when a group of people claiming to be Maika Holdings investors could not meet MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu yesterday. The group of about 50 had waited for more than three hours and became agitated when Samy Vellu refused to discuss their grievances over the losses they claimed to have suffered.<\/p>\n

The protesters had initially gathered at around 9am outside the SJK (T) Ladang Ulu Tiram in Ulu Tiram near here. However, they rushed to the Arulmigu Thiru Murugan temple about 2km away when they found out that Samy Vellu was there.<\/p>\n

At the temple, tempers flared between the protesters and MIC vice-president Datuk S. Sothinathan when they accused one another of speaking disrespectfully. The protesters calmed down and agreed to move out of the temple compound when they were told that the matter would be discussed outside.<\/p>\n

The MIC leaders, however, later drove off.<\/p>\n

Spokesman for the protesters, businessman K. Selvakumaran, 48, said they were upset because Samy Vellu had not responded to their questions about Maika Holdings.<\/p>\n

Seri Alam OCPD Supt Roslan Zainuddin said that the situation was under control and the protesters had dispersed peacefully.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAIKA will be an albatross around the neck of MIC for as long as the investors are not refunded and those responsible are bought to justice. Samy can expect more such receptions as long as MAIKA issue can be used to raise the emotions of the community. Just mention MAIKA, and you most likely will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117,84,98,24,225,27],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-funds","tag-maika","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}