Fix the holes in vetting process


THE Investment, Trade and Industry Ministry, Youth and Sports Ministry, Chief Government Security Office as well as Universiti Malaya (UM) must immediately lodge reports on the case of fraud involving a Perdana Fellow who, according to Singapore’s The Straits Times, “had managed to fool even the chief security office of the Malaysian government”.

The latest reports say the person concerned had forged documents to show that he earned a degree in “Electronics and Comunications (sic) Engineering” from UM.

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