Malaysia's Home Ministry will look into the alleged involvement of civil servants in human trafficking cases as stated in the United States Department of State's 2023 Trafficking in Persons report.
Malaysia Minister of Home Affairs Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said it was one of 15 recommendations which had urged the government to increase efforts to investigate and prosecute trafficking cases – as distinct from migrant smuggling – including those involving complicit officials and forced labour crimes.
He said it was something the Madani government would not compromise on, as repeatedly stressed by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. "So, they see it as a gap and they want us to look into it," he said at the ministry headquarters on Friday. Malaysia was in Tier 2 of the USTIP report 2017, Tier 2-Watch List from 2018 to 2020, and Tier 3 in 2021 and 2022.
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