Committee chairman Rais Yatim said this was to ensure that the country would have the expertise to run a court specifically to handle corruption cases.

“There is a need for an anti-corruption court, or a court specifically on corruption to be established, from (the level of) the sessions court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court, with judges who are experts and who are not changed periodically.

“We have presented this matter, and it is one of the big challenges and has received the attention of the government,” he told the media after handing over the committee’s 22-page annual report for 2020 to Ismail at the Parliament building today.

The submission of the report is in line with Section 14(5) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (Act 694), which stipulates that the committee must prepare and submit an annual report on the performance of its functions to the prime minister.

Rais, who is also the Dewan Negara president, said another suggestion was for the government to pay serious attention to the problem of loss of case items due to theft and other reasons.

Another matter raised was the non-uniformity on the use of orange clothing for those accused of corruption crimes, where some parties were subject to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) lock-up clothing, while others were allowed to wear formal clothing, including suits and ties.

Rais said another issue raised by the committee was related to MACC’s internal disciplinary matters and the people’s confidence in the agency, which needed to be improved.