The Star - Oct 31, 2008

ACA juggles RM45m probe list

PUTRAJAYA: The Anti-Corruption Agency is currently investigating graft cases involving funds amounting to RM45mil.
Director-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan said the agency confiscated RM8.8mil in property between January and October this year and collected fines totalling RM1.3mil.

“We have crippled various huge syndicates involved in high-profile corruption linked to the country’s security, such as the issuance of foreign workers’ permits, MyKad counterfeiting and smuggling of timber and diesel,” he said in his speech at the agency’s 41st anniversary celebration at Puspanita yesterday.

He said 548 people were caught, of whom 252 were civil servants. The agency received 13,669 tip-offs on graft in the first 10 months of this year, a 10% increase from the same period last year.