MCA believes that DAP "playing victim" will no longer win the party sympathy at the 14th General Election.

MCA religious harmony bureau chairperson Ti Lian Ker said this in response to DAP crying foul over the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) arrest of Penang exco Phee Boon Poh.

"DAP must know that playing the victim had worked in the previous election but Malaysians are beginning to see DAP’s hypocrisy when it comes to corruption, so playing the victim is only making fools out of their supporters.

"I urge DAP to allow MACC to do their work without any hindrance," he said in a statement today.

Ti took issue with DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang's statement that Phee's arrest was MACC's attempt to whitewash corruption in the country.

"There is a huge amount of hypocrisy in the DAP camp right now because of their leaders being embroiled in corruption charges," he said.

Phee was on Friday arrested over allegedly instructing a local council not to act against an illegal factory in Bukit Mertajam.

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had defended Phee, stating that illegal factories in the state were undergoing legalisation exercise.

Lim was in June last year also charged with corruption for allegedly obtaining with bungalow without adequate consideration and approving the re-zoning of a land purportedly owned by a company linked to his landlady.

Lim had maintained the charges were politically motivated.

The action against Phee came following a MACC complaint by PKR's Penanti assemblyperson Norlela Ariffin against the illegal factory.

Penang PKR had distanced itself from Norlela who thanked MACC for the action.

Ti said DAP should not target Norlela for her actions.