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PUTRAJAYA: Corruption cases resulting in leakage of government acquisitions involving public officials are increasingly seen as critical, said Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki (pix).
Without disclosing the statistics, he said there were several cases of government procurement leakage involving government agencies and that 50% of the MACC’s investigative work involved such cases.
“I can say that, based on MACC’s analysis, such wastes are common in the public sector, where they (the main leaders of government agencies) who are in power to decide an issue (public procurement) are involved in misappropriation. and the abuse of power.
“When there is a leak from public procurement, our research shows that there is an element of corruption that causes a certain value of public procurement to go up,” he said. Called in conjunction with MACC’s 53rd anniversary today.
For example, Azam said that if a public procurement is worth RM1 million, the value of corruption will also increase.
“It is not only that the value of corruption increases but it also affects the quality of the project. For example, the most recent case involving a road improvement project in Sarawak, where the quality of the project has been reduced such that it is prone to damage and causes a loss of millions of ringgit for the government, ”he said.
Azam said MACC needed to have experts on the subject and work with the Public Works Department (PWD).
In early September Called reported that MACC had arrested two directors of a company with the title of Datuk on suspicion of corruption and making false claims worth tens of millions of ringgit in connection with the implementation of 10 road improvement projects in Sarawak worth 800 million ringgit.
When asked if such cases occurred in the private sector, Azam said that MACC had received reports that involved the private sector, but that the number was not as worrying as in the public sector.
“The intention of the MACC is to investigate both parties (public and private sector) if they are government acquisitions and take them to court,” he said.
Meanwhile, commenting on the effort to make Malaysia a corruption-free country, Azam said he demanded that the MACC be mature in all its actions related to compliance, prevention, and community education to combat corruption.
“Currently, as we live through the new regulations in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, also for the next few years, the situation poses challenges for the MACC in its fight for zero corruption or the creation of a society free of corruption.
“Before Covid19, the MACC went out into the field to give information sessions and campaign against corruption in the community, but since Covid-19, the MACC uses many video and social media approaches to interact with the community,” he said.
Other than that, Azam said that the MACC also included an anti-corruption education element in the fifth-year student textbook that will go into effect in 2021.
“Apart from preventive measures, the MACC also focuses on educating society to improve the integrity of people, especially involving the future of the civil service sector,” he said. – Called
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