Immigration Dg Hails Cooperation With Macc In Arrests Of Dhaka Based Officers
Ruslin Jusoh said the immigration department had first ordered its two officers in Dhaka to return to Malaysia to assist with the probe into the alleged bribery, before passing the case to MACC. (Bernama pic)PUTRAJAYA: The arrest of two immigration department officers serving as attaches in Bangladesh by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) last Monday was the result of strategic information sharing between the two agencies.
Immigration director-general Ruslin Jusoh said the department began investigating claims that immigration attaches based in Dhaka, Bangladesh had been allegedly receiving bribes involving the issuance of foreign visas to Bangladeshi citizens to enter Malaysia.
“The immigration department then ordered the two of them to return to Malaysia to assist with its (internal) investigation.
Ads by Kiosked“All the information was then channelled to MACC for action and their probe led to the arrest of the two officers,” he said in a statement today.
-ADVERTISEMENT-Ads by He added that the immigration department would continue to provide its full cooperation to MACC in a transparent and fair manner.
Ruslin also said the immigration department will not compromise when it comes to any of its officers committing offences that tarnish its image and threaten the country’s security and sovereignty.
He hailed the strategic cooperation with MACC and said the department would continue to ensure it was always transparent in dealing with elements of corruption and practices that lacked integrity.
It was reported yesterday that two enforcement agency officers serving in Bangladesh were arrested on April 17 after going to the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya to give their statements. The duo, who were later identified as immigration officers, were remanded for three days beginning April 18.
The MACC was said to have detected a number of suspicious transactions in their bank accounts.
Ads by KioskedMACC chief commissioner Azam Baki, when contacted, confirmed the arrests and did not rule out the possibility that there would be several other arrests made after this. - FMT
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