Be prepared, more civil servants to be declared bankrupt soon
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Datuk M. Bakri Abd Majid, Malaysian Department of Insolvency Director-General NSTP PICTURE BY YAZIT RAZALI |
More civil servants are expected to be declared bankrupt following the recent crackdown by the SPRM, in English, known as Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), on a financial consultancy syndicate.
Malaysian Department of Insolvency director-general Datuk M. Bakri Abd Majid said civil servants who obtained "unusual" bank loans would likely default once the syndicate stops making payments on their behalf.
"We are uncertain about the total loan amounts they took and their repayment capacity based on their salaries.
"However, if someone obtained loans from four different banks simultaneously, with each amounting to RM200,000, they risk being declared bankrupt.
"Before that happens, the banks (creditors) will take action against them, as I believe they (debtors) will not be able to make the payments.
"Some of them may have already been declared bankrupt," New Straits Times quoted Bakri as saying via its Malay language newspaper Berita Harian's Borak Harini podcast, which aired yesterday, Saturday 8 March 2025.
Recently, SPRM dismantled a corruption and money laundering operation involving a financial consultancy company and bank officers from several financial institutions through Op Sky.
The operation, carried out by SPRM's Anti-Money Laundering Prevention Division in collaboration with Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), led to the arrest of at least 27 individuals, including 18 bank officers, eight employees of the financial consultancy firm, and one civilian, to assist in investigations.
The investigation also involved three celebrities who served as brand ambassadors for the financial consultancy company — singer Ziana Zain, actor Datuk Jalaluddin Hassan, and Malaysia's first astronaut, Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor.
It was confirmed that they received payments solely for their endorsement services and were not involved in the company's operations.
During the operation, SPRM seized about 4,000 documents and froze 98 bank accounts containing more than RM17 million.
Bakri acknowledged the existence of cases in which civil servants were declared bankrupt as a result of excessive bank loans.
"We have previously handled a case where a civil servant borrowed up to RM700,000 and was later declared bankrupt," he said.
He added that civil servants could face disciplinary action if they were found to have engaged in serious financial misconduct.
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