Flashback #Star50: Botak Chin – the ‘lucky’ gangster

By ARNOLD LOH

Nation
Saturday, 19 Jun 2021

Notorious gangster: The front page cover of ‘The Star’ on Jan 12, 1977, a day after Botak Chin was sentenced to death by the High Court.

LUCK. Botak Chin had luck, said retired top cop Tan Sri Mohd Zaman Khan.

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