The Use of Leniency Programme in Detecting Cartels in Malaysia

Na’aim Mohd Safri Mohammed, Rajamanickam Ramalinggam, Razak Muhammad Faliq Abd, Idris Nadzirah and Abdullah Farhah
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Na’aim Mohd Safri Mohammed: Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Rajamanickam Ramalinggam: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Razak Muhammad Faliq Abd: Lecturer, Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Idris Nadzirah: Master Candidate, Faculty of Law, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Abdullah Farhah: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019, vol. 8, issue 2, 226-238

Abstract: The cartel is regarded as a desease that inflicts on the open market economy. Whilst its presence is detrimental to the public, the most serious issue is its secrecy, which has posed a major problem to competition authorities all over the world. To address this, many countries including Malaysia have introduced a leniency programme for the detection of cartels by persuading their members to approach the authorities to admit involvement in the cartel activities and assist the authorities to expose other cartel participants. The objective of this paper is to conduct a study on the legal framework of the cartel and Malaysia’s leniency programme. The paper contains a detailed analysis of the Competition Act 2010 (Act 712) (CA 2010), the Guidelines on Leniency Regime (Leniency Guidelines) by the Malaysian Competition Commission (MyCC) and academic research in this area. The findings show that while the leniency programme is available under the Leniency Guidelines, data on leniency applications made to date are not available on the MyCC’s website. In addition, the MyCC’s decisions published on its website revealed that of six cartels that were found to have committed infringement, none had been first detected through the leniency programme. Therefore, the effectiveness of the programme has yet to be proven.

Keywords: Cartel; Competition Act 2010; leniency programme; Malaysian Competition Commission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/ajis-2019-0034

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