Ngo Implicates Cabinet Member In Penjanakerjaya Scandal

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An NGO has lodged a report with the MACC over the alleged misappropriation of funds from the Employment Recruitment Incentives Programme (PenjanaKerjaya) amounting to RM100 million.
Persatuan Harapan India Malaysia (PHIM) also submitted additional evidence to the graft buster earlier today.
Its chairperson Mani Maran Manickam said those involved in the case, including a cabinet minister, must be investigated.
"We are here to ask the MACC to keep investigating the case further," he told media at the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya (above).
"What we are seeing is that the MACC only investigates and detains individuals linked to the company which is used to embezzle the funds.
"However, some individuals, including a few political leaders remained untouched by the MACC. They are the 'mastermind' behind the embezzlement," added Mani Maran.
He said the group wants everyone involved to be investigated, including a “cabinet minister”. He did not name the minister.
The group, he said, has submitted a list of names of those allegedly involved to the MACC.
"Their names were submitted after securing substantive evidence of their involvement.
"We are very sure that some leaders from a political party have played a big role in this corruption. It is up to the MACC to summon them for an investigation," he said.
Individuals claimed to have been scammed
The evidence collected was based on the complaints of individuals who claim to have been scammed through the PenjayaKerjaya programme, he said.
He added that the group has received over 30 complaints and another 30 have contacted them claiming to have been scammed.
"Their modus operandi is that individuals will be registered by certain companies with promises of receiving RM600 each for six months.
"However, they only received the money for three months. The balance of the payment was claimed from the Social Security Organisation (Socso) but they haven't received any payment," Mani Maran said.
Recently, 45 individuals were arrested under MACC’s "Ops Hire", which is probing the alleged misappropriation of PenjanaKerjaya funds amounting to RM100 million.
The probe involved 67 companies, while 36 accounts with a total value of more than RM7 million have been frozen.
In a statement last December, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said PenjanaKerjaya is run by Socso.
The programme provides salary incentives of up to 60 percent of the monthly salary to employers, as well as high skills training programmes or professional certificates to employees of up to RM7,000. - Mkini

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