PETALING JAYA: PAS says the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission should focus on investigating media reports about corruption involving foreign worker agents and immigration department staff, rather than arresting a journalist for allegedly soliciting and receiving a bribe from an agent.
PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan noted that MACC arrested 37 enforcement officers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last September for allegedly colluding and receiving bribes from syndicates involved in smuggling foreign nationals into the country.
He said such activities could cause more harm to the country’s security and economy compared to the alleged criminal extortion involving Malaysiakini journalist B Nantha Kumar, who wrote articles about the alleged operations of a Pakistani cartel smuggling foreign workers into Malaysia.