PETALING JAYA: DAP has called on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to provide more information about its investigations into corrupt practices during the Covid-19 pandemic.
MACC chief Azam Baki yesterday revealed that the anti-graft agency had opened investigations into bribery in the procurement of medical services, fraud related to the supply of medical protective equipment, and abuse of power in distributing aid and stimulus packages during the pandemic.
DAP secretary-general Loke Siew Fook today urged Azam to be more transparent in this matter and provide the public with more information such as which ministries and departments were involved.
He said the public wanted to know “whether the cases involve ministers or deputy ministers, the value of corruption, and so on”.
“The public has the right to know more about these cases,” he said in a statement.
Loke also urged the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to call Azam to provide evidence and information on the matter to ensure that all government expenditure was managed properly.
A finance ministry spokesman had told FMT that RM530 billion had been spent on eight economic stimulus packages since March 2020.
Then interim prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad also announced a RM20 billion economic stimulus package to mitigate the financial impact of Covid-19 in February 2020.
Noting how the identity of a High Court judge being investigated by MACC could be publicly revealed, Loke said he was confident MACC could take similar action in cases of public interest like these.
MACC last week said it had concluded its probe into appellate judge Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, after it opened an investigation paper following a report lodged about an alleged unexplained sum of more than RM1 million in Nazlan’s bank account. - FMT
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