Budget 2025: Reforms welcome, but procurement risks remain a key concern
23 OCTOBER 2024 PRESS STATEMENT On 18 October 2024, the Supply (Budget) Bill 2025 was tabled in Parliament and notably, was the largest budget ever tabled in Malaysian history. Overall, the items in the budget suggest a positive shift by the government in the direction of improving accountability in public service delivery, as well as […]
PAC findings expose massive misgovernance issue at the heart of migrant labour recruitment, police investigations must ensue
6 JULY 2024 PRESS STATEMENT On 3 July 2024, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) led by Mas Ermieyati reported that the migrant labour recruitment system under the supervision of the Ministry of Home Affairs had been operating for six years without having been formalised in a contract. The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 […]
Closed Door Roundtable Discussion on Malaysia’s Public Procurement System
C4 Center team together with Rasuah Busters had a closed-door session with industry players on how we can improve our public procurement process taking into account the various issues from corruption, abuse of power and the seeming lack of investigations on perpetrators. We further looked at how technology can play a role in mitigating these […]
Dialogue aims to open up Malaysia’s procurement
To help achieve the Malaysian Government’s announcement of introducing a newProcurement Act with extensive consultation and public input, The Center to CombatCorruption & Cronyism (C4 Center) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) brought together key stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, the FinanceMinistry and Parliament for a three-day introductory procurement dialogue […]
LCS Scandal: Remedying Corruption or Simply Ignoring It?
PRESS STATEMENT On 26 May, it was reported that Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd (BNS), a subsidiary of Boustead Holding Berhad (BHB) signed a sixth supplemental contract for the procurement of the littoral combat ships (LCS), reducing the deliverables from six ships to five, but ballooning the total cost of the project from RM9.13 billion […]
Corporate Social Responsibility in Public Procurement – No Responsibility for Losses, No Empathy for Malaysians
The Auditor-General’s 2021 Report (Series 2) has brought to light damning revelations regarding the procurement of ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic leading to the delivery of 93 defective units and an estimated RM13.07 million in losses. These findings highlight how the loopholes and flaws in our institutions are not merely issues removed and out-of-touch from […]
Malaysia’s information and accountability drought – our procurement system under siege
Asserting that Malaysia is a democracy would mean asserting that the systems Malaysia is governed by adhere to democratic principles, such as freedom of expression and association, consent of the governed, and transparency and accountability, to name a few. The challenge arises when assessing whether these principles have been fulfilled in the administration of the […]
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) scandal – the crooks and villains behind Malaysia’s defence procurement laid bare
The LCS scandal that has plagued headlines for weeks now is rapidly revealing itself to be another iteration of the Scorpene submarine scandal that further sullied the already tarnished reputation of former Defence Minister and Prime Minister and current convict Najib Razak – all with similar players and modus operandi. As the audit report by […]
A corrupt system laid bare in our procurement system
Press Statement8 APRIL 2021 The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 Center) is angered at the latest revelation of a syndicate or a “tender cartel” monopolising government tenders amounting to RM 3.8 billion, laying bare the deep rot in our government procurement system. Just how a long standing “cartel” could even come to be […]
Press Statement: C4 urges audit on all projects awarded via direct negotiations, and urgently calls for a public procurement law
C4 Press Statement 26 August 2020 The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 Center) refers to the revelation made by Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz in Parliament that the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government had awarded 101 projects via direct negotiations worth RM 6.61 billion in the 22 month PH was in power. Former Finance […]