Daim, as UMNO Treasurer, has not given a detailed report of what is held and what its position is. In recent meetings of the UMNO supreme council, the pressure on him to reveal all is so great that not attending UMNO meetings would allow him time to write a report on how much it has lost. There is no reason to assume that UMNO holdings would be well taken care of when personal holdings are at the brink of bankruptcy. More than that, the PAS MP, Mohamed Sabu, has mercilessly put Daim in a spot with his cutting remarks. That Mohamed Sabu comes up for criticism in the mainstream press suggest that his barbs hit home.
People believe it.
Even in government. Ultimately, all this has come to a head because the two men believed in their own belief that nothing on earth could fell them. It did not. There was self-interest in the fallout of this economic and financial bonanza. That is where everything went wrong.