PUTRAJAYA, Sept. 10 -- The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has clarified that an integrity screening conducted on Halal Development Corporation's (HDC) acting chairman, Datuk Azhari Shaari, found no active investigations against him at the time of the review.

The commission said its checks onOctober 30, 2024revealed there were no open files or ongoing probes, and HDC was informed of this outcome on November 4, 2024.

"For the record, the nominee had previously been convicted under Section 471 of the Penal Code and fined RM1,900 by the Shah Alam Sessions Court on 23 October 2023, and this record remains in MACC's Anti-Corruption Database Portal," MACC said in a statement yesterday.

Section 471 of the Penal Code covers the off...