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An enforcement officer in Ipoh has been remanded for three days on suspicion of accepting RM190,000 in bribes from a cooking oil packaging company to help secure access to subsidised cooking oil quotas.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has unveiled six governance recommendations designed to shore up Malaysia's Cooking Oil Price Stabilisation Scheme, targeting systemic vulnerabilities and financial losses in the subsidy administration.
Malaysia's Domestic Trade Ministry will review a parliamentary committee's recommendations on cooking oil subsidies, focusing on expanding a digital tracking system to prevent subsidy misuse and limit foreign access to subsidised supplies.
Malaysia's Public Accounts Committee has called for sweeping reforms to the cooking oil subsidy scheme, recommending a 60,000 metric tonne monthly quota reduction and stricter controls to prevent fund leakage.