MACC to review JPN’s processes after birth registration bribery probe

 

MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki said the anti-graft agency would focus on the national registration department’s overall procedures after 16 people were arrested in a bribery investigation.

KUALA LUMPUR: 

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will analyse processes within the national registration department (JPN) following the arrest of 16 people suspected of being involved in bribery related to birth registration.

MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki said that besides investigating offences under the MACC Act 2009, the commission would also focus on the overall procedures within JPN.

“We will discuss this with the JPN director-general once the investigation has been completed and we have our findings on the department’s processes,” he said when contacted today.

MACC arrested 16 people between 11am and 8pm yesterday in separate operations conducted across the Klang Valley and Johor.

The detainees include a civil servant, a medical practitioner with a Datuk Seri title, a legal practitioner, several agents, and birth registration applicants.

They are suspected of being involved in bribery and the preparation and submission of false birth confirmation documents from 2013 to 2018 and 2023 to 2025.

A total of 12 individuals have been remanded until March 16, while four others, including the medical practitioner, were released on MACC bail for health reasons after their statements were recorded. - FMT