Sedic fiasco: MIC lodges MACC report

KUALA LUMPUR: MIC Youth lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) yesterday following the damning revelation made by Auditor General’s Report 2018 that the now defunct Socio-Economic Development of the Indian Community Unit (Sedic) had mismanaged millions meant to help the Indian community.
Speaking to the Malay Mail Online, MIC youth chief R Thinalan said he made the MACC report to prove his party was not linked to the matter.
“MIC is also doing this before the matter is politicised by Pakatan Harapan without basis and facts,” he said.
In the AG report, it claimed that grants meant for the betterment of the Malaysian Indian community were mismanaged by Sedic under the Najib administration between 2014 to 2018.
A total of RM203.89 million between 2014 and 2018 were allocated to run development programmes to uplift the poor Indian community.
However, there were no records or database to monitor the spending of the grants and it did not follow criteria in terms of selecting its non-governmental organisation recipients.
The AG report also revealed that the then Health Minister, an assistant minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Sedic itself applied for RM38 million between 2016 and 2018 as a one-off contribution for NGOS and Indian places of worship.
After Pakatan took over the government, Sedic was revamped and renamed as Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit. It still remains under the purview of the Prime Minister’s Office.