MACC chief commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull recounted today that he felt so embarrassed about Malaysia's corruption levels when on a trip abroad in 2016 that he pretended to be an Indonesian national.

“When someone asked me in English where I was from, I was ashamed to say I was from Malaysia, so I said I was an Indonesian.

"That was our state of (corruption) at that time," Shukri told a forum in Putrajaya this morning...