The projects given out by the three senior government officers, who were arrested on Monday for corruption, must be halted while the investigations are going on, DAP’s Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng says.

If any of the projects or contracts awarded by the officers are found to have elements of corruption, Lim said, they should be cancelled or re-tendered.

"Corruption is like love; if you clap with one hand, there won't be any sound. There has to be someone who gives and someone who takes," Lim said in a statement today.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) should also be going after the individuals or companies that had bribed the three officers, he said.

He noted that one of those arrested by MACC was a senior officer at Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), who was responsible for development projects.

As such, he said, the approval given by this senior officer for these development projects in Kuala Lumpur must be examined.

"Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor should suspend all approved development projects that involved this particular Datuk Seri (who was arrested)," Lim said.

Not only that, the deputies and secretaries of the three officers who were arrested should also be investigated for not reporting the graft activities of their bosses to the authorities.

'Educate corporate world as well'

Disciplinary actions should also be taken against the integrity departments of the three agencies where the officers were from, that is DBKL, the Public Works Department (PWD) and Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), Lim said.

"The government should also take this opportunity to educate the Malaysian corporate world and also the public service about the negative effects of corruption," he added.

The three senior officers were yesterday remanded in Malacca, Putrajaya and Kota Baru respectively, after the MACC seized their assets that are worth millions of ringgit.

They will be detained until Aug 22 to assist with investigations under Section 17(a) and Section 23 of the MACC Act for soliciting bribes.

The MACC has also frozen the trio's bank accounts, which contained a total of RM13 million, and seized a luxury condominium, a bungalow as well as three cars, Maserati, a BMW and an Audi.

Sources also told Malaysiakini that the some of the cash seized was hidden in the ceiling of one of the properties, and were mostly in bundles of RM50 and RM100 notes.

Newly-appointed MACC chief commissioner Dzulkifli Ahmad had earlier said the anti-graft body is focusing on wiping out corruption in the civil service.