Following the enforcement of corporate liability for corruption offences under Section 17A of the MACC Act, many companies have now established a basic set of anti-corruption procedures. Directors are now considering what their role should be in providing effective oversight for the programme and how the true effectiveness of the anti-bribery management system can be tested. This half day session explores the Malaysian Government’s Guidelines on Adequate Procedures from a director’s perspective, and considers how the impact of the programme can be assessed and maximized to ensure the company’s ‘adequate procedures’ are indeed adequate..

It will consider questions such as: