Dr M to raise 1MDB issue at anti-graft summit

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will raise the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) issue and anti-graft related measures in the Anti-Corruption Summit 2018.

He will touch on these matters during his keynote address at the summit here on Oct 30, which is themed “Good Governance and Integrity for Sustainable Business Growth”.

At a pre-summit announcement event here yesterday, Transparency International Malaysia president Datuk Akhbar Satar said: “Although the 1MDB probe has yet to be completed, he will touch on it.”

Present were Business Integrity Alliance Bhd president Mohd Shah Hashim and Aram Global Sdn Bhd corporate governance specialist Abdul Rasid Majid.

Akhbar said the summit would touch on pertinent issues such as the attorney-general’s (A-G) role and the proposal to put the post directly under Parliament to improve governance and integrity.

Akhbar said this issue needed to be seriously looked into as the previous A-G, Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, was removed from his post in the course of the 1MDB probe in the previous administration.

He said the summit would be a way for the public and private sectors to learn effective antigraft measures from their foreign counterparts.

He said this could be seen with the summit attendance of the globally-respected Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission chairman Agus Rahardjo.

At the summit, which is expected to see an attendance of 1,300 participants, Akhbar will deliver the opening speech and Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali will deliver the closing remarks.

Other speakers confirmed are National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption director-general Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed, Malaysian AntiCorruption Commission Deputy Chief Commissioner Datuk Shamsun Baharin and Immigration director-general Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali.