KUALA LUMPUR: Women’s participation in the fight to combat corruption is crucial as they are the group often taken advantage of and end up becoming a victim, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Latheefa Koya said today.

“Women are the biggest group or community that has been on the receiving end of the effect of corruption. In order to solve the problem, we need to get women to participate as well.”

“If they speak out and put a stop, we can do so much better when it comes to fighting against corruption,” she said in a two minutes video clip shared by the APEC Secretariat in conjunction with the APEC Symposium on Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment to Fight Corruption in Putrajaya here today.