‘Worms’ stop here: Courts are tackling the menace of “ulat” or worms (touts) with the widespread adoption of the cashless eJamin system for bail payments. The digital shift aims to cut off touts from their illegal operations by making all bail transactions direct and transparent. — RAJA FAISAL HISHAN/The Star
PETALING JAYA: The Bar Council has formed a full-fledged committee to stop touts and is also looking at whether legislation needs to be tightened to stop such practices.
“Touting in the Malaysian legal sphere means the involvement of a third party who introduces clients and shares legal fees with a member of the Bar,” says the Anti-Touting Committee chairman, BK Pillai.
