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The Star - April 12, 2008
ACA to adopt
intelligence-based investigation method
PUTRAJAYA: The Anti-Corruption Agency hopes to adopt the
“intelligence-based investigations” approach with the
aim of being more effective in the criminal justice
system.
ACA deputy director-general I Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed
said the approach had been successfully adopted in
several countries.
“We have to go beyond our current method of
investigation and adopt this new approach, where the
information is gathered and placed in a systematic
manner,” he said, declining to elaborate on the details.
Abu Kassim said previously, the agency relied on the
public to lodge a report before commencing
investigations, while some people had volunteered
information but refused to go to court.
“We took this into consideration and began exploring
other methods on how ACA could revise our work culture
so that corruption can be identified more easily and the
offender brought to court,” he said.
On the new form for ministers and deputy ministers to
declare their assets, Abu Kassim said various format had
been looked into and the best option would be presented
to the Prime Minister by the end of the month.
“We have already completed it and it requires some fine
tuning,” he said.
Last week Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi said he had directed ACA to find out the practice
of asset declaration in other countries to ensure
Malaysia could come up with a proper way of doing it.
On the public perception towards the judiciary, Abu
Kassim said many judges were of high integrity but
several incidents might have created a negative view of
the judiciary.
Overall, he said, the judiciary ranked quite high in the
Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by Transparency
International between 2005 and 2007 compared to several
other countries.
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