PETALING JAYA, July 5: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has been asked to answer allegations of discrepancies between the success figures given with the figures stated at the House of Representatives recently.
PKR strategy director, Rafizi Ramli said, in 2013, the MACC stated that the percentage of conviction has risen to 8 percent. Meanwhile, the figure rose to 89 percent by June 2013.
However, he added that the figures given by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Senator Datuk Paul Low at the House of Representatives was 67 percent of convictions in 2012 and 34 percent in June 2013.
“The conflicting figures would certainly invite many questions and will raise more doubts about the effectiveness and efficiency of the MACC,” said Rafizi in a pres conference here at the PKR headquarters.
He explained that the report percentage given by the MACC on average is still low, which is only 0.02 percent per capita of the people. In Hong Kong, the percentage is three times higher.
He said, if the people do not come forward and do not want to give information, then certainly it would be more difficult to carry out investigations and prosecutions.
“Only one out of every five information or report given ends with an investigation file being opened,” he said.
He added, though probably much information is categorised as not being related to corruption, the figures imply that withe the MACC’s investigation skills need to be enhanced or there have been intervention.
“The willingness of the MACC in receiving views on this matter is appreciated, however it should be followed by an increase in performance figures, especially in the number of reports and information which ended up with investigation files being opened.
“As long as these two figures do not increase the MACC is still faced with the problem of negative perception among the people,” he said.