COMMENT | Daim Zainuddin was an enigma, complex and complicated, whose commercial interests ranged far and wide, straddling both government and the corporate sector.

He has laudatory achievements in government as finance minister but at the same time earns a contrary one as a person who politicised business.

Powerful as he was, Daim owed that almost entirely to the implicit and explicit trust generously bestowed upon him by the country’s...