He said he had accepted the recommendations by the Bukit Aman commercial crime investigation department (CCID), Bernama reported.

Bukit Aman CCID director Ramli Yoosuf yesterday recommended that all agencies, including the Klang district and land office, run internal audits and investigations to determine those involved in the state’s illegal land transfer cartel.

Ramli said police were ready to investigate any evidence or information linking these offices to criminal cases.

Amirudin said the state government will tighten standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to the e-Tanah system to screen for misconduct.

“From now on, e-Tanah system users will be required to register their usernames. Their logins will be recorded so that we can track and identify who accessed the system, when they did so, and so on,” he told reporters in Shah Alam today.

Police previously uncovered an illegal land transfer operation involving staff at the Klang land and district office, leading to the arrest of 17 civil servants since last September.

They are suspected of being involved in a cartel that facilitated the illegal transfer of 9.4ha of land worth RM7.1 million.

On Jan 21, Selangor land and mines office director Yusri Zakariah confirmed that seven staff members at the Klang land and district office were among the 17 arrested in connection with illegal land transfer activities in the state.

He said internal investigations found that the criminal activities were believed to have occurred during the office’s transition to the new e-Tanah system. The seven have been transferred to other departments not related to land matters pending investigations.