Malaysia’s drop in global graft index shocks MACC chief

Updated 6 years ago · Published on 22 Feb 2018 3:28PM · 5 Comments

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief Dzulkifli Ahmad says Malaysia’s position at 62 out of 180 countries on the index did not reflect the investigative actions taken by MACC and also the preventive and education awareness efforts the agency had conducted in 2017. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, February 22, 2018.

MALAYSIA’S slide in a global corruption perception index for 2017 has shocked Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief Dzulkifli Ahmad who said the ranking did not reflect the agency’s “aggressive” moves to fight graft.

“If we based it on the reality of what happened in the country and the actions taken by the MACC, then it (our rank) should be better than 2016,” Malaysiakini quoted him as saying.

“I’m rather shocked by the report,” he said in Kuala Lumpur today.

Dzulkifli said Malaysia’s position at 62 out of 180 countries on the index did not reflect the investigative actions taken by MACC and also the preventive and education awareness efforts the agency had conducted in 2017.

The ranking for 2017 puts Malaysia down seven places from the previous year, on par with Cuba, and is the country’s lowest since 1995.

Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) chairman Akhbar Satar when launching the CPI for 2017 today said the drop was due to Putrajaya’s failure to resolve major corruption scandals, like 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), Tabung Haji and Felda.

Meanwhile, Paul Low, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of integrity and governance, attributed the drop to MACC’s work in making several high-profile arrests last year.

“The high degree of publicity and exposure given by MACC to these cases especially in the last year may have created a more negative perception which could have contributed to the drop in Malaysia’s CPI score and ranking,” Low was reported as saying by Malaysiakini.

But, he added, this did not mean MACC should stop its aggressive enforcement and neither should the government be deterred from making long-term changes. – February 22, 2018.

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  • I could smell sperm

    Posted 6 years ago by Leslie Chan · Reply

  • Anyone shocked is either a liar or idiot.. Which is he?

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • shocked ? Please check what are swept under the carpet.

    Posted 6 years ago by Zureen ariff · Reply

  • We told you your IBR pledge is useless and pointless, now you get told again by Transparency international. If you quit banging someone's wife this would never happen.

    Posted 6 years ago by Kuasa Rakyat · Reply

  • Is MACC worried.......outcome was already on the wall.......Dzul Malaysia the public is duly bother about the standing of MACC SO WHAT IS THE BIG FUSS........

    Posted 6 years ago by Mohanarajan murugeson · Reply