They were arrested in January following allegations of abuse of power and corruption linked to the management of e-waste, believed to have taken place over the past several years.

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Azam Baki said the attorney-general recently approved charging the duo with corruption.

“They will be charged in court tomorrow if there are no complications,” he said after attending a Malaysian Enforcement Agencies Special Task Force engagement session here.

He said the department’s new director-general would be decided by Chief Secretary Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar.

MACC previously said it received information that as many as 3,000 containers of e-waste were illegally brought into the country over the past few years.

The anti-graft agency did not rule out the possibility that certain authorities tasked with preventing the entry of such waste were protecting the companies which imported the containers.