Lii Hen shares price closed at RM 1.82 on June 22, 2004, at the time when Chan Kam Sam and Cimsec Nominees (Tempatan) Sdn Bhd disclosed their substantial shareholdings to Bursa Malaysia. The share price closed a tad higher at RM 1.94 when Siow Chung Peng made his first disclosure on July 10, 2004. We already know he had recalled those Lii Hen shares that were bought under Chok Swee Lan's name in CIMB Securities back to his own account at this time.

The share price of Lii Hen had been on a steady climb from the RM 1.20 level since Dato' Goh agreed to the request of Siow Chung Peng to kickstart stage one of the exercise. Together with part of those placement shares bought from the Muar carpenters, we reckoned that the Dato', through the direct order of Siow Chung Peng of course, would have accumulated a stake of not less than 12 millions Lii Hen shares in the range of RM 1.40 to RM 1.50 for Siow Chung Peng. That is one fifth of Lii Hen issued share capital of 60 million shares and the strategic block of a 20% stake he is vying for. At the time Siow Chung Peng made his first disclosure on July 10, 2004, he is already sitting on a paper profit of at least 50 sen a share or a cool RM 6 million based on the stock price of RM 1.94.

But there is always two sides to a coin. The large paper profit in the stock account of Chok Swee Lan caught the attention of CIMB Securities management. They became cautious as Lii Hen share is approaching the RM 2 mark with a 50% increase in stock price in the last three months. Some limitations were put in place on Lii Hen stock and they wanted her to scale down the position to not more than 5% of the issued share capital of Lii Hen or 3,000,000 shares. As the ultimate owner of this account is Siow Chung Peng, Dato' Goh promptly informed him that he needs to take out part of the position in CIMB Securities.

Agitated and rather annoyed, Siow Chung Peng told the account relationship manager of CIMB Securities, through the Dato', that he will not only comply but he will take out the entire position since there are plenty of stockbrokers eager to deal with him, he roared. As a matter of fact, CIMB Securities wanted his business and it was merely a precautionary measure in risk management, the account relationship manager said apologetically to Dato' Goh. But what could the Dato' do to stop the raging Siow Chung Peng from going elsewhere?

Indeed, Lii Hen stock had since been receiving a lot of attentions from punters and market analysts alike now with the impressive run in its stock price and the steady daily traded volume. Since the last time when Siow Chung Peng allowed some of his remisiers in trading the stock, more came knocking on the door. Some even came to the Dato' for a piece of the actions. As remisiers and dealers often do pass around business and market tips, it is not uncommon that at time they split the brokerages as well.

There exist a group of middleman between the stockbrokers and the syndicate called "the runner". A runner is basically an introducer or a go-between of the stockbrokers and the syndicate or the other way around. They are either former remisiers or dealers stopped from practising due to various reasons like losses or they are assistant to a licensed dealer's representative. Some of them can be present or ex-employees of banks or stockbroking firms doing deal privately. The more successful runners can earn an income far beyond our imagination because they can have multiple deals happening at the same time. And they can always buy-in cheap or sell the highest since they are the one that brought the deal together, thus they are always on the ball.

Catherine Lee from Old Klang Road is one of the more successful runners. She was formerly a trainee dealer in Seagrott & Campbell, now known as KAF. She was working under Koh Kim Teck in early 2000s. Yes, you guess it right, the Dato' Seri Koh Kim Teck who allegedly murdered his Chinese national nephew on September 26, 2004 in his bungalow.

Remember Tanamas (now known as Golden Land Berhad GLBHD 7382) in the year 2003? The plantation stock that surged from RM 1.56 on August 26, 2003 to RM 7.55 on November 5, 2003, thats a whopping and jaw-dropping 5-folds in less than three months. The exclusive runner for Tanamas was no other than Catherine Lee. She was placing out Tanamas shares in the multiple of million shares to various stockbrokers, big time remisiers and even speculative fund managers daily. It is daily. How thick is her commission.

It is a known fact among those who have dealt with her that she has a long list of stock analysts and news writers under her payroll. Mandarin educated, she is an avid believer and practitioner of Sun Tzu's Art of War. We will reveal some of her Sun Tzu moves as we go along.

She had known Dato' Goh in similar deals like this sometime ago. She contacted the Dato' as she came to know that he was the man to get to Siow Chung Peng's business. Coincidentally, Siow Chung Peng needed a big trading line to warehouse the CIMB Securities block of some 5,000,000 shares. At this point on June 30, 2004 we are talking about a line of close to RM 10 million. And he needed it urgently since he had abominated CIMB Securities because of the trading curb. A cautious Dato' Goh is not opening new line to him because right from the start of stage one, it was a term between the two that Siow Chung Peng is responsible for the accounting and money matters. At eleventh hour like this, perhaps Catherine Lee can be of help, said the Dato' to him but warned that her fee won't be cheap. He agreed and asked the Dato' to proceed with Catherine Lee.

She promptly arranged a Miss Michelle from PM Securities, Penang branch to get in touch with Dato' Goh after her terms and conditions were agreed upon by Siow Chung Peng. Due to the short notice and in keeping with Siow Chung Peng's requirements, Michelle agreed to arrange her own nominees to do the deal. Wary that he may lose some of the Lii Hen shares in the hand of Michelle, he insisted that she open an account under Chan Kam Sam's name which she complied. And the CIMB Securities' block of almost five millions went off without a hitch thereafter.

According to Catherine Lee, Michelle was able to put through the deal quickly because the latter was related to a senior official of PM Securities in the head office. They used to do this type of rainy day deal for a hefty fee. On face value, Catherine Lee would have done a big favour for Siow Chung Peng. But these were only hypocritical subterfuge of her trying to force Siow Chung Peng and his master plan into a tight corner. A game she knows just too well from General Sun.

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