Enforcement officers offered bribes as high as RM1mil

(Bernama) – KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 442 people have been arrested since April last year until March this year for bribing enforcement officers, with the highest bribe offered at RM1mil.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Community Education division director, Datuk Samsiah Abu Bakar, said 422 of those arrested were men and 282 were locals.

“The arrest shows that the MACC is firm and we hope the public are also firm in rejecting bribes, no matter how small the amount involved,” she added.

She said this during a forum,” Towards Zero Corruption: Role of NGO in Fighting Corruption”, here Saturday.

Meanwhile, MACC deputy chief commissioner, Datuk Sutinah Sutan, said associations and non-governmental organisations (NGO) should be active in helping MACC to fight corruption.

This, she said, was because the NGOs interacted a lot with the public and they could help explain on the dangers of corruption.

“The NGOs can be the eyes and ears or watchdog to report any malpractices, misappropriation, corruption and power abuse,” she told reporters after the forum.

She said eradication of corruption was the responsibility of everybody and not that of the enforcement authorities or MACC alone. – Bernama