SYNOPSIS

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) (Amendment) Act 2018 has been passed in Parliament and gazetted on 4th May 2018. The main thrust of this Act is to introduce a new far-reaching corporate liability provision into the MACC Act. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission will enforce the new provision effective from June 2020.

The MACC (Amendment) Act 2018 introduces a new Section 17A into the MACC Act. This section provides that “a commercial organisation commits an offence if any person associated with the commercial organisation commits a corrupt act in order to obtain or retain business or advantage for the commercial organisation”. Hence, IEM is organising the webinar to allow the members to understand what would be the potential impacts on engineering industries and companies due to the introduction of the act, and how can engineers applying the code of ethics in order to compliment the act.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

SAC Mohd Nur Lokman is currently the Head, Private Sector Branch, Community Education Division for Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission since 2014. He is graduated from IIUM in Bachelor’s Degree in Law. Currently, SAC Mohd Nur Lokman also serves as the CIDB working group member in CIDB Integrity Modules for Contractors and as a Lecturer in UKM for Integrity and Corruption subject. He is also a member of Working Group for The National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption (“GIACC”) – UNDP Anti-Bribery Management System Certification Project for Ministries, State Government and Local Authority in Malaysia. He has presented several papers on anti-corruption at regional, where recently he has been invited by the Government of Thailand to conduct training on anti-corruption for public sector in Thailand. He is also having vast experience as an investigator and a prosecuting officer.