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Azam Baki: Use of legal loopholes,technology by offenders amongbiggest challenges faced by MACCMuhammad A�q Mohd Asri & Mohd Norzaidi Arjunaidi / BernamaSeptember 30, 2020 23:35 pm +08

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PUTRAJAYA (Sept 30): The use of legal loopholes and cutting­edge technology

by o�enders are among the challenges faced by the Malaysian Anti­Corruption

Commission (MACC) in tackling corruption and misconduct in the modern

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era, says MACC Chief Commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki.

He said corruption in the past was more ‘straight forward’, while those �outing

the law now had become much more sophisticated in their approach.

"That is why I always use the term that corruption is an ‘economic crime’.

When talking about economic crime, those involved in corruption have

various ways of abusing the law or system.

"To deal with it, we need to dig in deeper (into the corrupt practices) because

(in the past,) we may detect a person is involved in corruption through his

lifestyle (but) now, although we may see the o�ender is living a life that may

involve corruption, the law requires us to prove the source of the corruption,"

he told Bernama in conjunction with the commission’s 53rd anniversary, to be

celebrated tomorrow (Oct 1).

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Azam said the MACC also needed to submit relevant evidence and witnesses

to assist and prove the criminal o�ences committed by these individuals,

which was no easy task to do. 

Azam said his team also faced challenges in tracing where the illegal proceeds

were stored by the o�enders, more so with the advent of digital money

transactions.

"This is another widespread thing that is not easy for agencies like us or other

agencies as well such as the police to detect, for example, the use of 'illegal

proxies' by these criminals to store the money," he said.

Azam said a lack of cooperation from the public in terms of channeling

information about corrupt practices was another issue as well.

"Until now, the community only talks about the issue but for them to provide

information about corruption either involving themselves or others, is not an

easy thing," he said.

The MACC was established on Oct 1, 1967, and was formerly known as the

Anti­Corruption Agency (ACA) before becoming an independent commission

in 2009.

It had also been a special agency to carry out investigations and enforcement

under the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), and placed as a special unit under

the Prime Minister's Department to provide anti­corruption awareness to the

public.

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