Wednesday, December 2, 2015

BPKP-STAR Seminar with Professionals

On the second day of the BPKP-STAR Program, the Accounting Research Institute (ARI) organizes a one-day seminar on "Corporate Governance and Integrity for Public Sector" for the participants.  ARI has invited three professionals/practitioners to address the audiences.  They were namely Mr Mohamed Rezeidi, Deputy Director of the Private Sector Unit of the Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM), Mr Westmoreland Ajom, Superintendent and head of the forensic accounting unit of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (SPRM) and Dr. Bello Lawal Danbatta, an  Islamic Finance Expert and Group’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Rifcon Consulting Group.  Basically, participants were exposed to various facets of the public sector services through the set up of these government agencies. Whilst IIM was set up to promote integrity culture within the public sector, SPRM was established to mitigate corruption in government department