Ismail (left) welcoming newly appointed Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Salahuddin Ayub (right) to the ministry on May 23 - Bernama
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Ismail Bakar is set to be appointed as the top bureaucrat at the Treasury, taking over the post left vacant following the removal of Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah last month, as the government steps up efforts to clean up the financial mess left by the previous administration.
Ismail, 58, was the budget director at the Finance Ministry (MoF) before he was moved in November 2014 to head the civil service at the Transport Ministry.
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