‘We don’t defame anyone’


PUTRAJAYA: Action taken by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) during the investigation process or after charges are filed are not aimed at pressuring any individual for political reasons, it says.

The MACC said this following claims by a former minister that it had deliberately held an investigation to defame him.

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