'Frankly appalling', says social activist as MACC reveals over 3,600 probed for graft in last five years


KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) revelation that 3,630 civil servants and employees of private firms and government-linked companies have been investigated or taken action against for corruption-related offences over the past five years is “frankly appalling”, says social activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.

He said the scale of wrongdoing reflected a worrying pattern that “goes beyond a few bad apples”.

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