PETALING JAYA: Three top enforcement agencies will be closely monitoring the coming state elections for any wrongdoing by political parties or their supporters.
JANUARY 6 ― “The biggest challenge for us is to make the MACC a corruption-free agency,” said former MACC Chief Commissioner, Latheefa Koya. Forty days after her appointment as the first woman to head the country’s anti-corruption enforcement agency, Latheefa said this in an interview with.
When crime does pay Bernama
PETALING JAYA: In Malaysia, compounding a traffic offence by not paying the fine on time has its rewards. One eventually gets a discount.
Experts say such a policy leads motorists to throw caution to the wind and continue to commit traffic offences, such as speeding or beating the lights.
“We are just sending out the wrong message,” criminologist Datuk Akhbar Satar told
theSun.
“In countries such as the United Kingdom and Singapore, those who pay the fine early are rewarded. But in Malaysia, it looks like the longer you wait, the more likely you are to get rewarded (with bigger discounts),” said Akhbar, who is president of the Malaysian Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Wednesday, 23 Dec 2020 09:03 AM MYT
Rice smuggling activities are still rampant in border areas despite regular enforcement operations mobilised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries’ Padi and Rice Regulatory division. AFP pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 Rice smuggling activities are still rampant in border areas despite regular enforcement operations mobilised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries’ Padi and Rice Regulatory division.
Foreign syndicates are known to smuggle rice, purchased cheaply in countries such as Thailand and Vietnam, through illegal routes or
lorong tikus at the border into Malaysia where it is sold at the standard price of about RM2.60 a kilogramme or at even higher prices.