Kuala Lumpur: the Malaysian anti -corruption fee (Macc) denied practising selective felony actions in its investigations.
Sunday (March 2), chief commissioner Azam Baki stated that no exceptions would have been made for anybody concerned in corruption, together with journalists and politicians.
Azam was responding to the latest arrest of a journalist from an internet media portal in a lodge in Shah Alam for presumably soliciting a bustarella of 20,000 RM (4,482 US $) by an agent of international staff.
“We have robust causes to consider that the journalist has been concerned in corruption after 20,000 RM in money have been present in his possession,” Azam stated on Sunday, as talked about by the brand new Straits Times.
He added that the investigation famous that the cash was acquired in change for having eliminated printed articles and never having printed additional stories on an company of international staff presumably concerned in a union for the entry of international staff into Malaysia, in keeping with the star.
Azam’s feedback had been in response to the calls of some components that questioned the motion of the Macc in retaining the journalist as an alternative of specializing in the accusations of corruption involving international staff and immigration brokers.
Previously, the Islamist Party components of Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) The basic secretary Takiyuddin Hassan had invited the Macc to prioritize the investigation into the accusations of corruption involving brokers of international staff and immigration brokers within the entrance factors of the nation, fairly than retaining the journalist who reported on the matter, in keeping with the brand new instances of Straits.
Takiyuddin stated that the arrest of the journalist who uncovered the smuggling of international staff was uncommon and raised questions.
“Pas believes that it might be extra acceptable for the Macc investigating for the primary time on media relationships on these suspicious actions fairly than appearing towards a journalist who merely reported the accusations of corruption,” he stated, as talked about within the new Straits Times.
The native media beforehand reported that the arrest of the 49 -year -old Malaysian journalist, B Nantha Kumar, on the Concorde Hotel in Shah Alam, was carried out on Friday after the investigations found that that they had requested RM100.000, later decreased to twenty,000 RM.
It is now relating to March 4, with the case investigated pursuant to part 16 (A) (a) of the Macc Act 2009, in keeping with native media.
