July 29th, 2019
The anti-graft body is waiting for further instruction from the Attorney General’s Chambers over alleged corruption involving a political aide to a Cabinet Minister.
Chief commissioner Latheefa Koya said the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had completed its investigation and submitted the papers to the AGC.
The...
July 2nd, 2019
All Malaysian MPs must declare their assets or face censure by parliament's disciplinary panel, as the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government won a unanimous vote on Monday (July 1) that should ease criticism of walking back on promises of reform.
Despite claiming of the parliamentary motion being "unIslamic" and defective, opposition...
June 14th, 2019
Malaysia's Defence Ministry has lodged a complaint with the country's anti-graft agency to investigate the non-delivery of six helicopters that were ordered in 2015 worth RM300 million (S$98.4 million).
Bernama news agency reported that a Mindef representative filed the complaint at the headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption...
May 27th, 2019
The one-year-old government of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has made major strides in tackling the corruption that nearly brought the country to its knees, but major legislative reform is needed to ensure the excesses of disgraced former leader Najib Razak are never repeated.
That was the verdict of Mahathir’s top...
May 15th, 2019
Ministers may soon be required to include safeguards against corruption within their ministries as part of their key performance indicators (KPIs).
In a statement today, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC) has proposed to the Special Cabinet Committee on...
May 7th, 2019
Former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng has pleaded not guilty to allegations of bribery and money laundering in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, after his surprise extradition to the US from a Malaysian jail.
The Malaysian national was released under house arrest on $20m bail by Peggy Kuo, magistrate judge, in Brooklyn federal...
April 10th, 2019Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, was jailed in Kuala Lumpur and will face graft charges on Wednesday, in what marks her second arrest in six months.
Malaysia’s anti-corruption commission arrested Ms Rosmah on Tuesday afternoon before releasing her ahead of court proceedings tomorrow morning....
March 21st, 2019A special court will be set up to hear corruption cases, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
The Prime Minister said it is needed so that corruption-related cases could be tried without delay.
"We want the corruption court to be set up as soon as possible but we understand there are laws that need to be changed for this to materialise,"...
March 6th, 2019The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today detained eight prison officers and a foreign driver to assist investigations over allegations of receiving bribes amounting to RM120,000.
Penang MACC director Wan Ramli Wan Abdullah, who confirmed the arrests today, however declined to comment further on the case.
Earlier,...
February 13th, 2019A French lawyer probing a controversial submarine deal linked to Malaysia's ousted leader Najib Razak was on Tuesday (Feb 12) set to meet officials to aid investigations into the scandal.
Mr William Bourdon, who represents local human rights group Suaram over the French submarine deal, was deported from Malaysia on his last visit in...
