Following the suspension of six Puspakom staff on suspicion of being involved in a syndicate for heavy vehicle inspection approvals, the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) have arrested 13 vehicle inspection officers at vehicle inspection centre in Kuala Lumpur for the same matter, Bernama has reported.
According to sources cited by Bernama, the suspects aged between 20 and 40 were arrested when they were present at MACC headquarters in Putrajaya to provide evidence. To date, the MACC has arrested 22 suspects including 19 vehicle inspection officers, an agent and two runners involved in the syndicate, according to the source.
“Preliminary investigations revealed that all of them are believed to have received bribes ranging from RM150 to RM1,500 per month in cash from runners for helping to approve vehicle inspections at their place of duty. The arrest of all the suspects follows the arrests of six vehicle inspectors last Monday and the results of an interrogation conducted by the MACC on an agent handed over by the road transport department (JPJ) previously,” the source was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, investigations by the MACC into vehicle inspection syndicates will be expanded to include other inspection centres nationwide, and no limited to centres in Kuala Lumpur, said MACC chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki, reported the New Straits Times.
“Based on our collaboration with the road transport department (JPJ) and Puspakom, we will look into other inspection centres in the country as well,” Azam said.
“Our goal is to eliminate corruption at the inspection centres Our investigations lead us to believe that the first suspect, who was handed over to us by [the JPJ], is the mastermind of the operations. We do not rule out the possibility that more arrests will be made to facilitate investigations,” he continued.
The arrests were confirmed by MACC deputy chief commissioner of operations Datuk Seri Ahmad Khusairi Yahaya, who said that the case was being investigated under Section 16 of the MACC Act 2009, and said that all 13 inspection officers arrested will be released on MACC bail following investigations.
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This heavy vehicle inspection scandal is getting worse by the minute. As I said before, more arrest incoming.
So,can we imagine for a moment..how many thousand rotten vehicles are on the road,roaming with total freedom,until another big accident involving dozens of lives?
PMX,the Puspakom CEO should be jailed for allowing all these shit right under his watch.
JPJ has privatised its inspection responsibility to a shit company called Puspakom.
Puspakom…is a KAOTIM subsidiary of DRB..what a shame.
#BilaNakTangkapLoke
The tip of the iceberg for cronies & friends which has abuse the system for decades no wonder the previous Ba wants to save Malaysia kud.
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Semua ikan bilis saja, mana Jaw?
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1. ikan bilis sudah ditangkap
2. ikan paus bila mahu ditangkap?
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Paus kan haiwan mamalia dilindungi. X boleh tangkap, bleh amek gambar jer.
Ikan bilis banyak jer, nak mata kaler2 pn ada.Jangan lupa beli kalau pegi Pangkor.
shame to Puspakom management and leadership. You need MACC, an external body to find investigate and find these illegal practices in your organisation. By right, the management itself should have carried out internal investigation and monitor occurence of such practice in their organisation. Quick, decisive and clear action by management is important to stamp malpractice in organisation. Clearly Puspakom management had failed miserably… don’t tell me the management never walked the floor nor listen to complaints from customers and thru online social medias. top management should have look into it internally once there is complaint of such… lazy management!!!
They (Jaws) have scarified their ikan bilis, what else do you expect? Fook kia also can have something to show. Can close case now
Both parties giving and receiving bribe including the runner should be arrested!
Just look at the type of bikes used by the officers. Extremely heavy modified that are out of place for people earning salary of 2k a month, more like 3.5k. Go puspakom padang jawa, just a hint.
lokeloke habislah ini kali, people syok syok earn money now you song lap people business, they cannot do illegal earnings anymore how they survive ah, you got think of their family or not, you got think about lorry company bosses’ car loans to pay or not, the lorry drivers’ family, no, you only think about yourself.