Profiling fraud committed by public sector employees: evidence from the Malaysian media reporting
Abstract
This study investigated the type and frequency of media reporting on fraud among the PSE reported by the mainstream newspapers in Malaysia. The study also revealed the type of media reporting on fraud according to agencies and the states where the fraud cases took place. To achieve the objective of this study, a qualitative approach by content analysis over fraud cases reported online through websites of the respective mainstream newspaper agencies were scrutinized. The findings show that the English medium newspapers reported more fraud cases involving the PSE compared to the Bahasa Malaysia medium newspaper. The highest media reporting on fraud was fraud cases involving Sabah Water Department (SWD), while the highest fraud cases were reported among the state government, followed by the federal government and local authority.
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