PETALING JAYA: The management of the Human Resource Development Corporation (HRD Corp) has not committed any offence under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act, the Public Accounts Committee was told.
According to MACC investigative officer Mohd Fuad Sedet during the proceeding involving allegations against HRD Corp, he said that an investigation paper was opened but no wrongdoings were made by the management.
“On the investigation division, an investigation paper was opened. Based on the paper, there was no wrongdoing under the MACC Act.
“The matter had also been delivered to the Governance Investigation Division (BPT),” he said as quoted in the follow up report released on Monday (Dec 9).
In July, the MACC received a report on the HRD Corp audit, saying several investigation papers had been opened, and a task force had been set up to scrutinise the report.
Human Resources Minister Steven Sim had instructed for a report to be made with the MACC, following the Auditor-General and the PAC reports, which were tabled in Parliament.
Suspicious real estate deals and high-risk investments were some of the issues identified by the PAC in its report on HRD Corp.
One such deal was the purchase of Menara Ikhlas for RM202.5mil in February 2021, for which a deposit of RM120mil was paid upfront to a company called Crystal Clear Technology.
