Malaysia

Socso confirms officer nabbed by MACC over Penjana graft

It stresses that it will give full cooperation to anti-corruption body

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 19 May 2023 4:30PM

Socso confirms officer nabbed by MACC over Penjana graft
The Social Security Organisation says one of its officers has been arrested under Ops Hire 2.0 yesterday. – SAIRIEN NAFIS/The Vibes file pic, May 19, 2023

KUALA LUMPUR – The Social Security Organisation (Socso) confirmed that one of its officers has been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) under Ops Hire 2.0 yesterday.

In a statement today, Socso said the arrest was to facilitate investigations into alleged corruption in the approval of claims for the Employment Incentive Programme under the National Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana).

“As such, we would like to stress that Socso will not interfere but will give full cooperation and will leave it to MACC to investigate the officer until the case is solved,” it said.

Prior to this, the media reported that MACC had arrested an officer of an agency on suspicion of being involved in accepting thousands of ringgit from a company as an inducement to approve false claims under the Penjana employment incentive programme amounting to RM1.3 million. – Bernama, May 19, 2023

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