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GIVER OF BRIBES ALSO TO FACE ACTION - MINISTER
GIVER OF BRIBES ALSO TO FACE ACTION - MINISTER
PUTRAJAYA, July 16 (Bernama) -- The Home Ministry will take stern action not only on those accepting bribes but also those offering such gratification to ministry officials or agents to process applications for citizenship, entry permit, and birth certificates.
Its minister, Hishammuddin Hussein said the ministry would blacklist the
names of the offenders, and approvals for their applications would be revoked if
they were found to have given such gratification.
He said this was because the ministry had not appointed any agent who
charged a service fee of between RM5,000 and RM10,000 to manage each
application.
"I received reports that there are certain agents who are approaching
applicants whether for citizenship, entry permit or birth certificate, illegal
foreign workers to ask for payments of between RM5,000 and RM10,000 to process
such applications. This is actually bribery.
"I want to tell the public that I don't allow such things and our sincerity
has been abused, especially for the benefit of certain groups," he told
reporters after looking at more than 300 boxes containing files of applications
for citizenship, entry permits and birth certificates at his office, here
Wednesday.
Last week, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that among the 11 gifts for
the people in conjunction with his first 100 days as Prime Minister was to speed
up efforts to resolve the people's citizenship problem.
Hishammuddin said this meant that any application submitted by anyone who
had been blacklisted would not be considered at all in future.
As such, he advised members of the public to deal directly with the relevant
government agencies for their applications and to lodge police reports if they
had any information or had been cheated by such agents.
In the meantime, the ministry would speed up the processing of applications
for citizenship, entry permit and birth certificate and targeted the end of the
year to arrive at a decision on the applications.
However, Hishammuddin said the ministry was always guided by the existing
regulations and requirements and would not arbitrarily approve applications that
did not meet the requirements as it was aware of the negative impact and effects
on the country.
He said he was also discussing with the relevant agencies to enable the
processing of such applications to be speeded up in future to eliminate
corruption.
Meanwhile, Hishammuddin did not deny that he had received threats from
certain parties following his efforts to fight crime and expressed satisfaction
with the performance of the police force in looking after his security.
On another development, the minister said that the Meeting of the Cabinet
Committee that merged the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Workers and Illegal
Immigrants on Friday would also discuss the domestic maid issue.
He said the meeting to be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin
would scrutinise the requirements of the critical sectors that needed foreign
workers.
"We will look at the sectors, the economic sectors that need foreign
workers, let the cabinet committee discuss it in detail," Hishammuddin added.
-- BERNAMA
PUTRAJAYA, July 16 (Bernama) -- The Home Ministry will take stern action not only on those accepting bribes but also those offering such gratification to ministry officials or agents to process applications for citizenship, entry permit, and birth certificates.
Its minister, Hishammuddin Hussein said the ministry would blacklist the
names of the offenders, and approvals for their applications would be revoked if
they were found to have given such gratification.
He said this was because the ministry had not appointed any agent who
charged a service fee of between RM5,000 and RM10,000 to manage each
application.
"I received reports that there are certain agents who are approaching
applicants whether for citizenship, entry permit or birth certificate, illegal
foreign workers to ask for payments of between RM5,000 and RM10,000 to process
such applications. This is actually bribery.
"I want to tell the public that I don't allow such things and our sincerity
has been abused, especially for the benefit of certain groups," he told
reporters after looking at more than 300 boxes containing files of applications
for citizenship, entry permits and birth certificates at his office, here
Wednesday.
Last week, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that among the 11 gifts for
the people in conjunction with his first 100 days as Prime Minister was to speed
up efforts to resolve the people's citizenship problem.
Hishammuddin said this meant that any application submitted by anyone who
had been blacklisted would not be considered at all in future.
As such, he advised members of the public to deal directly with the relevant
government agencies for their applications and to lodge police reports if they
had any information or had been cheated by such agents.
In the meantime, the ministry would speed up the processing of applications
for citizenship, entry permit and birth certificate and targeted the end of the
year to arrive at a decision on the applications.
However, Hishammuddin said the ministry was always guided by the existing
regulations and requirements and would not arbitrarily approve applications that
did not meet the requirements as it was aware of the negative impact and effects
on the country.
He said he was also discussing with the relevant agencies to enable the
processing of such applications to be speeded up in future to eliminate
corruption.
Meanwhile, Hishammuddin did not deny that he had received threats from
certain parties following his efforts to fight crime and expressed satisfaction
with the performance of the police force in looking after his security.
On another development, the minister said that the Meeting of the Cabinet
Committee that merged the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Workers and Illegal
Immigrants on Friday would also discuss the domestic maid issue.
He said the meeting to be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin
would scrutinise the requirements of the critical sectors that needed foreign
workers.
"We will look at the sectors, the economic sectors that need foreign
workers, let the cabinet committee discuss it in detail," Hishammuddin added.
-- BERNAMA
