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A cardinal enactment successful Malaysia’s ruling conjugation called connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026) for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to beryllium formed to analyse misconduct allegations against the country’s anti-graft agency.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and its main person been the absorption of a nationalist outcry pursuing aggregate media reports earlier this period accusing it of misconduct and breaching nationalist work laws, among different allegations.
Bloomberg reported that MACC officials were helping a radical of businessmen to prehend power of companies. Reuters has not independently verified the report, which cited interior documents and interviews with witnesses.
MACC said the allegations were “baseless”, saying successful a connection connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) that they were an effort to discredit its investigations and enforcement actions wrong the firm sector.
However, the Democratic Action Party, a cardinal member of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration, said it volition propulsion for an enquiry into the allegations, calling MACC’s denial “insufficient”.
“There must beryllium an enquiry into the allegations made and that enquiry ought to beryllium by mode of an RCI equipped with each those powers indispensable to guarantee an effectual and transparent probe into the matter,” DAP nationalist president Gobind Singh Deo, who is besides a Cabinet Minister, said successful a connection connected Wednesday.
The DAP’s leader, Anthony Loke, who is besides Transport Minister, said he would suggest the enactment of the RCI during Friday’s Cabinet meeting, section media reported connected Tuesday.
Prime Minister Anwar’s bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. The authorities formed a peculiar committee earlier this period to analyse the MACC’s main pursuing a abstracted media study alleging a breach of shareholding laws.
