Only about 10 percent of the total complaints relating to corruption and abuse of power received by the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) were investigated over the past four years.

From 2001 to 2004, the ACA received a total of 38,471 complaints, out of which 3,766 were investigated, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department M Kayveas told Teresa Kok (DAP-Seputeh) today.

Of the 3,766 files opened, the ACA was still probing 402 cases, he added in a written reply.

Kok then suggested that the ACA be replaced by the Umno disciplinary board.

"The Umno board should just take over the ACA because it is much more efficient. The board has looked into the complaints and penalised those involved in money politics within a year," she quipped.

A total of 69 Umno members had been found guilty for involvement in money politics since the party polls last September. Vice-president Mohd Isa Abdul Samad was among them and had been suspended from his post and party for six years.

'No fry nor big fish'

"Last time our perception is that the ACA only acts against the small fry, not the big fish. Now the perception has changed. The ACA does not even act against the fry nowadays," the Kok said.

The DAP legislator said with such statistics, the people will lose confidence in the agency.

She added that she had personally lodged a few reports to the ACA in the past but no action was taken.

At least 25 high-profile corruption cases involving high-ranking politicians have been under investigation for the past five years.