KOTA KINABALU: It is not the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) place to investigate judges' code of conduct, says Sabah Law Society (SLS) president Roger Chin.
He said issues regarding judges' breaches of ethics were for the judges ethics committee to investigate and not the MACC, who are mandated by law to investigate corruption.
"The offences under the Act, unsurprisingly, all relate to corruption, including other offences of corruptly giving or accepting gratification, corruptly withdrawing tenders, bribery and using an office for gratification. In other words, Chin said, the MACC is in no position to investigate or make conclusions as to any alleged conflict of interest or breaches of the Code of Ethics.
"This statement is in itself mostly correct. However, the distinction that the MACC appears to have missed is that corruption is a separate concept from conflict of interest or breaches of the Code of Ethics.
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