KUALA LUMPUR: There is no necessity to temporarily halt the issuance of MyKads as the system used by the National Registration Department (NRD) is still safe with high security features.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said initial information revealed that the NRD system was not hacked as was alleged to produce false MyKads.
“The question of security does not arise because based on the information I received no one is using the NRD system to produce (fake) identity cards,” he said when contacted by Bernama yesterday.
He was commenting on a news report on the proposal by Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) special committee member Datuk Irmohizam Ibrahim that the government temporarily halt the issuance of MyKads until its security features were upgraded to prevent them from being falsified.
The proposal was made following MACC’s arrest of three individuals, including one who was suspected of having access to the NRD system, while processing identity cards for customers from China during a raid last Saturday.
Wan Junaidi said the existence of the false identity cards had no connection with the NRD system and it was likely the false Mykad issuance syndicate had high technology that copied the NRD system.
Following the allegations, he said MACC was expected to lodge a police report to enable further investigation to be conducted by the police.
Asked on the possibility that insiders were involved, especially NRD, Wan Junaidi said appropriate action would be taken against anyone found to be implicated in this case. —Bernama