IT came as quite a surprise when the Malaysian Anti Corrruption Commission (MACC) announced that it had raided some four dozen firms involving the timber industry in Sarawak and seized accounts and documents as well as frozen more than RM500mil worth of financial assets.
The MACC issued the statement on the raids after 6pm on Tuesday. That caught everyone offguard, including reporters.
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