COMMISSION TAKING STEPS TO WEED OUT CORRUPTION

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 22 (Bernama) -- The newly-established Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is going all out to ensure that work procedures and delivery systems in government departments and private companies are "corruption-unfriendly", said its Deputy Chief Commissioner II Zakaria Jaffar.

He said the commission's Inspection and Consulting Division was being beefed
up for this purpose.

He told this to reporters after handing over the keys to the division's new
premises in Precint 3 here Wednesday.

On the commission's recruitment drive to increase its manpower, Zakaria said
so far 17,000 applications were received to fill degree and diploma-level
positions and that 1,800 applicants had been short listed to be interviewed.

In Kuantan city , the east coast state of Pahang's MACC Wednesday nabbed a
senior assistant of a primary school in Raub concerning money politics in the
Raub United Malays National Organisation (Umno) division during the party's
divisional elections last November.

Pahang MACC director Sutinah Sutan told Bernama that the suspect, who is in
his 40s, would be charged in the Sessions Court at the Kuala Lumpur Court
Complex in the federal capital Thursday.