KUALA LUMPUR: The HRD Corp leadership must be changed even though the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) classified its case as having no elements of corruption, says a government backbencher.
Khoo Poay Tiong (PH-Kota Melaka) said findings from the Public Accounts Committee and Auditor-General were enough reason to make the change.
“A new leadership line up must be appointed to lead HRD Corp.
“Even their (HRD Corp) responses to the 11 recommendations made by the PAC shows they are not serious as they only responded saying they are reviewing it,” he said in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday (Dec 9).
In a report tabled by the PAC on Monday, an MACC investigation officer, Mohd Fuad Sedet, said there was no wrongdoing found against HRD Corp under the MACC Act 2009.
Suspicious real estate deals and high-risk investments were some of the issues identified by the PAC in its report released in July on HRD Corp.
It also found that HRD Corp had invested levies collected from employers in several high-risk investments, despite the training fund not being an investment institution.
Following the report, MACC officers collected documents from HRD Corp’s office as part of their probe.
