Shady collusions between tycoons and government plus state-owned enterprise officials never seem to go away. The Siman Bahar corruption case has once again revealed that import-export regulations as well as tax provisions are easily taken advantage of and manipulated.

Siman Bahar, alias Bong Kin Phin, is no ordinary businessperson. In his hometown in West Kalimantan, he is known as the Crazy Rich Pontianak. His business interests range from