Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today handed over letters of appointment to 26 members of three independent panels of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), 19 of them new faces.  

They were appointed as members of the Operations Review Panel, Complaints Committee, and Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel.   

The duration of appointments to the Operations Review Panel and Complaints Committee is for two years and to the Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel, one year.

The members of the Operations Review Panel are former Sarawak state secretary Dr Hamid Bugo; New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd chairperson Mohamed Jawhar Hassan; Bank Islam (M) Bhd chairperson Zamani Abdul Ghani.

Former deputy auditor-general Azizah Arshad; Public Complaints Bureau former director-general Wan Abdul Wahab Abdullah; Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Accounting Research Institute director Prof Dr Normah Omar.  

Universiti Sains Malaysia Criminology Faculty associate professor Dr Sundramoorthy M Pathmanathan and former Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee.  

The members of the Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel are Media Prima chairperson Johan Jaaffar; Limkokwing University president Dr Lim Kok Wing; Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations president Dr Marimuthu Nadason; Kumpulan Media Karangkraf chairperson Dr Hussamuddin Yaacub.

Federation of Chinese Associations of Malaysia (Hua Zong) honorary deputy secretary-general Prof Dr Chin Yew Sin; advocate and solicitor Zuraidah Atan; Malaysian Islamic Development Department former director-general Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz.

Public Complaints Bureau former director-general Khalid Ibrahim; Institute of Marketing Malaysia president Sharifah Mohd Ismail; USM Right Livelihood College former director Dr Anwar Fazal.

UiTM Faculty of Accountancy lecturer Prof Dr Syed Noh Syed Ahmad; UiTM Communication and Media Studies lecturer Assoc Prof Dr Ismail Sualman; Malaysia Institute of Internal Auditors former president Walter Sandosam and The Sun Daily editor R Nadeswaran.

The Complaints Committee members are former Sarawak state secretary Wilson Baya Dandot; former Sabah federal secretary Mohammad Hatta Abd Aziz;

Public Service Department former deputy director-general Ahmad Said and MACC General Services and Human Resources Management former director Rohani Abdul Kadir.

MACC, which was set up in 2009, has five independent bodies, namely the Special Committee on Corruption; Anti-Corruption Advisory Board; Operations Review Panel; Complaints Committee, and Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel.

- Bernama