1 month for Muhyiddin’s cabinet to declare assets

Ragananthini Vethasalam Chan Kok Leong Ragananthini Vethasalam, Chan Kok Leong Updated 4 years ago · Published on 11 Mar 2020 2:15PM · 2 Comments

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is giving his cabinet a month to declare their assets to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, March 11, 2020.

CABINET ministers and their deputies have one month to declare their assets to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), said Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

“I have told them to declare their assets within a month. The declaration will be handed to MACC,” he said after chairing his first cabinet meeting in Putrajaya today.

He said that his government is still firm on eradicating corruption in the country.

“As such, we have committed the leadership to integrity.”

Muhyiddin, who was the home minister under the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government, is continuing part of a practice introduced by the previous government.

PH was the first government to mandate that all its ministers, deputies and their spouses, political secretaries, MPs and assemblymen, declare their assets to MACC after winning the 2018 election.

The list can be viewed by the public here.

Although, Parliament similarly approved a motion for all MPs to declare their assets, lawmakers from Barisan Nasional and PAS declined to do so.

PAS deputy president and new environment minister Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man had said asset declarations were un-Islamic. – March 11, 2020.

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  • The problem isn't assets. It's donations. Are your ministers required to declare donations?

    Posted 4 years ago by Lawman will · Reply

  • Heck that's way too long. We could have an overthrow of government before then.

    Posted 4 years ago by CD E · Reply