KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Academy (MACA) will be receiving an allocation of almost RM1 million from the United Nations (UN) to develop two anti-corruption training programmes this year and next year, said its director Datuk Samarajoo Manikam.

He said the allocation under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was meant for training and briefings on intelligence gathering and corruption prevention for anti-corruption officers from 57 Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) countries .

He told this reporters after giving a briefing on on the academy's activities to a delegation from Thailand's National Anti Corruption Commission here today.

He said the two training programmes would be held in July this year and March next year respectively with the participation of at least 30 officers in each programme.

The training session will be held at the academy and supervised by officers from MACA, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and other certified trainers.

Samarajoo said thus far, MACA had conducted 20 international-level courses and trained about 500 anti-corruption officers from other countries.

The academy would also be sending two of its officers to undergo training at the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Fiji next month, he added.