KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 17): The three codenames — Tok Yah or Tok Ayah, DK and Adik — as reported by a local news portal to be the masterminds behind the counter-setting syndicate have no involvement in the activities in question, according to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
Its chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki said the commission had checked the three codenames and found that they had no connection with the syndicate.
“I have never heard of the names. I had asked my officers to check the names and this morning, I was told that the code of these three names has nothing to do with the counter setting,” he told reporters after opening the MACC chief commissioner’s roundtable conference with commercial banks at a hotel here on Thursday.
In a report dated Wednesday (Oct 16), the portal published, among other matters, that the “big fish” in the counter-setting syndicate was still free, even though the MACC had conducted a large-scale operation to cripple the activities.
On Wednesday, Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, when debating the issue in the Dewan Rakyat, requested that the portal hand over the names of the so-called “big fish” to the ministry, to be submitted to the MACC for further action.
Prior to this, Azam was reported to have said that a total of 50 law enforcers, including officers from the Malaysian Immigration Department, were arrested on suspicion of being involved in counter-setting activities.
The counter-setting activities involved syndicates bringing in foreigners, including from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Nepal, through the country’s entry gates, without inspection by the authorities.
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