PUTRAJAYA: Civil servants make up about 46 per cent of the 414 people detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for various offences so far this year, MACC deputy chief commissioner (prevention) Datuk Shamshun Bahari Mohd Jamil said yesterday.
He said 13 of the civil servants held top-level management posts, 44 held managerial and professional posts, while the remaining 134 were executives.
"The MACC will focus on combating corruption among civil servants in the next three years. We want to improve the Corruption Perception Index score, where the focus is definitely on corruption in the public sector.
"So, in the next three years, we will focus on the public sector, but it does not mean that other sectors will be ignored," he told reporters after attending the Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry's monthly assembly here.
At the event, Shamshun Bahari represented the MACC in signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation (SWCorp) to cooperate in terms of providing advisory and consultancy services, as well as sharing of information on criminal acts of corruption.
The Ministry's staff, led by its minister, Tan Sri Noh Omar, also took a corruption-free pledge aimed at enhancing the sense of responsibility among civil servants to carry out their duties free from corruption.
Noh said the pledge sends a clear message to the community that the Ministry will carry out its duties in a just, clean manner. -- Bernama
