No MACC probe into RM300 offer to reporters
[...] The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will not investigate the alleged RM300 "gift" to reporters covering the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election. A commission official said no investigation paper would be opened as the reporters who said they received the money at a media centre there could not identify the giver.
The official also said as most of the reporters covering the by-election were outsiders and did not vote in the by-election, the motive for giving the money could not be ascertained.
He also said it was unfair to accuse Umno or the Barisan Nasional of paying off the reporters, adding that claims by the opposition that Umno had bribed the voters were untrue. [read more]
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