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Its chief Datuk Seri Azam Baki (
pic) said 29 of the 115 initiatives spelt out in the plan had been implemented while 86 others were works in progress.
“Acknowledging that coordinated efforts are crucial to ensure holistic preventive measures for corruption, Malaysia has roped in various key stakeholders as lead agencies to implement the initiatives under the NACP, ” he said on Wednesday (May 19) in a keynote address at an event organised by the World Bank.
The NACP, which was launched by then prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in January 2019, aims to make Malaysia a corruption-free nation by 2023.
At the online launch of the “Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The Fight Against Corruption” report, Azam said NACP s vision was to create a corruption-free nation through three specific goals.
PUTRAJAYA: The special Cabinet committee on anti-corruption discussed the need to amend the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act to act against those who sell government tenders and projects.
It was among the issues discussed during the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on Monday (April 19) here.
The Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC) said the amendment was needed to boost integrity and transparency in government procurement and to deter the involvement of parties with vested interests such as cartels.
It said the meeting also agreed that the beneficiary ownership initiative must be expedited to ensure transparency in government procurement.
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