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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

MCMC officer under graft probe after whistleblowers complain

A Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission officer has allegedly misused the commission's assets for personal use. – flickr pic, January 7, 2015.A Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission officer has allegedly misused the commission's assets for personal use. – flickr pic, January 7, 2015.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has begun gathering information on a high-ranking officer in the country's communications and multimedia industry regulator in connection with an internal complaint of abuse of power, a source in the regulatory body has revealed.
The officer is with the enforcement and investigation division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and was identified in a letter from the MACC sent to the regulator requesting information on the officer concerned.
No specific offence was stated in the MACC letter, but the source in MCMC said it was possibly related to abuse of power and misuse of the commission's assets for personal use.
The preliminary exercise to collect information also covers assets obtained by MCMC for use by the officer's division.
The letter had showed that MACC was also seeking information on assets, including the MCMC's vehicle registration list.
"The letter seems to have a number of requests on the registration plates of the vehicles owned by MCMC, so maybe it is related to the wrongdoing," the source said.
There are also some purchases made of assets purportedly for the division's use, such as communications transmission detectors, that have not been utilised.
The source said these, too, were being looked at by the MACC.
It is learnt that the complaint to the anti-corruption body was filed by MCMC officers.
An MACC source, when contacted for confirmation, did not deny the preliminary investigation into the officer concerned.
However, the anti-corruption authority would follow certain processes before opening formal investigation papers, especially since the complaint had been lodged by an internal whistleblower.
Attempts to contact and text messages sent to MCMC's corporate communications department yielded no response.
MCMC is the body that oversees the communications and multimedia industry in the country.
The regulator is undergoing a change at the helm, following the non-renewal of its chairman Datuk Mohamed Sharil Mohamed Tarmizi's contract, which ended on December 31. Among the candidates speculated to replace him is an Umno man, Dr Mazlan Ismail, who once ran for elections against opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in the Permatang Pauh constituency. 
Sharil had come under pressure from Malay rights groups and some Umno division chiefs for not cracking down hard enough on social media postings that were critical of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government and of its lead party, Umno.
- TMI

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