Bung Moktar Radin

Who is Bung Moktar Radin?

Datuk Bung Moktar Radin is a Malaysian politician. He is currently the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Kinabatangan constituency in Sabah, representing the United Malay National Organisation party in the governing Barisan Nasional coalition.

Bung Moktar has been described as a controversial politician. In the first sitting of Parliament after the 2008 election, he called opposition politician Karpal Singh a "big monkey" after Singh called him "Bigfoot". In 2007, he apologised for making sexist remarks in Parliament about opposition politician Fong Po Kuan. On April 20, 2010, he pleaded guilty to committing polygamy by taking a second wife without the consent of a marriage registrar. He was sentenced to one month imprisonment, subject to a stay pending an appeal.