COMMENT You get all types in Malaysian politics, a bemusing variety if you take Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor as an example.

Testifying at the royal commission of inquiry into the VK Lingam videotape in January 2008, he was asked why the eponymous character under investigation had fingered him in what was an alleged attempt at case- and judge-fixing.

The current Umno secretary-general said he did not know, but that he was not surprised for he had heard even people in prison had used his name for some reason or another.