KOTA KINABALU: Graft-busters have arrested another suspect in connection with a syndicate involving enforcement officers approving driving licences for applicants without the compulsory driving tests here. The foreigner in his 40s was detained when he went to provide a statement at the Lahad Datu Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office at 4pm on Tuesday (Nov 21). A seven-day...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has launched an anti-corruption educational mobile game called Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Augmented Reality (MACC AR) on Saturday (Nov 11). Its community education division director, Nazli Rasyid Sulong said in a statement that the digital game was developed to educate and drum up public support for MACC’s anti-corruption fight. "The game...
PUTRAJAYA: An executive with a company providing foreign worker management systems has been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for allegedly taking RM45,000 in bribes. It is learnt the bribes were an inducement to make changes in the computer system between June and October this year. An MACC spokesman said the woman, in her 20s, was...
PUTRAJAYA: The Prime Minister has given the country’s top graft buster, Tan Sri Azam Baki, the full authority to probe allegations of corruption, including those involving ministers and civil servants. He said that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had repeatedly stressed the importance of integrity and governance in creating a clean and effective government. “He told me that...
KOTA KINABALU: Graft busters are watching like a hawk the implementation of the federal government's RM91mil allocation for school toilets refurbishment projects in Sabah, amid public concerns that shoddy jobs are being carried out. Officers from the state's Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) office, led by its director Datuk S. Karunanithy, have been checking out public...
MELAKA: The CEO of a state-owned company has been arrested for submitting false details on the value of the two vehicles that were supposed to be disposed of through a tender process. Melaka Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) director Mohd Shahril Che Saad said the 46-year-old suspect was arrested when he arrived at their headquarters in Alai...
KUALA TERENGGANU: A company owner and one of his employees pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here Tuesday (Oct 31) to charges of submitting false documents to the Social Security Organisation (Socso) to claim incentives under the Penjana Kerjaya 2.0 (Penjana) programme amounting to RM126,100 two years ago. Proprietor Arrie Syahiman Mohd Zain, 33, and...
JOHOR BARU: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained two more suspects, a husband and wife, in its investigation of corrupt practices in computerised driving tests. It is learnt that the 47-year-old man and 43-year-old woman are an administrative manager and a marketing manager respectively at a driving institute. They were arrested at Johor MACC headquarters at...
SEREMBAN: Two more employees of a government hospital here have been remanded for allegedly soliciting and receiving bribes from undertakers. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) obtained a five-day remand order on the duo, in their 30s and 40s, from a Magistrate's Court here on Friday (Sept 29) morning. The application was filed by MACC prosecuting officer Zainab...
ALOR SETAR: Nine enforcement agency officials have been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Monday (Sept 11) over allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes from fishing vessel owners and runners from 2018 to 2021. According to a MACC source, the enforcement officials were suspected to have received bribes as a reward for protecting and not...
