Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed (pic) said the government had suffered huge losses as funds had been spent more than they should. — Picture by Choo Choy MayKUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — A law is being promulgated to classify civil servants’ misconduct as corruption-oriented criminal offence to curb leakages of government allocations cited by the Auditor-General’s Report.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed said the government had suffered huge losses as funds had been spent more than they should.
“MACC’s investigations found that most of the losses were due to public officials’ misconduct and not corruption-oriented criminal elements. MACC cannot take action if they were merely misconducts,” he said at a briefing entitled “Is the MACC Credible” organised by the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) here today.
Abu Kassim said the MACC had submitted a proposal on the legislation and it was being scrutinised by the Attorney-General’s Chambers before being tabled to the Cabinet.
On Feb 28, Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa said 18 investigation papers pertaining to civil servants’ misconduct and negligence revealed in the 2012 Auditor- General’s Report had been submitted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers for action.
The cases included the case of alleged false claims submitted by Telekom Malaysia™ to the then Information, Communication and Culture Ministry pertaining to the Malaysian Emergency Response Services (MERS) 999 project valued at RM4.37 million over the period 2007 to 2012, he said.
Ali said that for the period 2007 to 2010, TM had also allegedly claimed payment of RM3.19 million for promotion and publicity services when the project had actually been cancelled.
He said that as of that date, in the matter of other cases of misconduct and negligence, 24 cases involving 140 officers had been identified and they had been subjected to disciplinary and surcharge proceedings.
“Of the total, disciplinary action had been initiated against 99 officers, disciplinary and surcharge proceedings against 12 and surcharge proceedings against 29,” he said. — Bernama
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