KUALA LUMPUR: Putrajaya is evaluating the National Council of Professors' (MPN) status as a government body after the Auditor General (AG) flagged governance issues in the organisation.
Minister in Prime Minister's Department (Federal Territories) Dr Zaliha Mustafa said the government was studying MPN's governance structure and may recommend amending its articles of association and appointing government representatives to its board of trustees.
She also said it would look into the AG's recommendations on MPN.
"The Federal Territories Department takes the report presented on July 4 seriously," she said in the Dewan Rakyat today during her winding-up speech on the AG's report.
Last week, the AG's Report revealed that nearly RM374,000 in MPN's funds were misused to benefit two companies in which two trustees have a stake.
According to the report which covers the period between 2019 to 2023, the AG found that two board of trustees members failed to declare share ownership in two companies in line with the Companies Act.
MPN later clarified that it was independent of the government between May 2018 and January 2022, after the Auditor-General flagged it for misuse of funds between 2019 and 2023 in its latest report.