PETALING JAYA, June 27 — Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) chief Nor Afizah Hanum Mokhtar will be heading back to the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) effective Monday, the government’s legal affairs department has announced, without a successor being named.

Her transfer was listed on the AGC’s website under a promotion/transfer order list of management and professional officers for July 2013.

An AGC official, who did not want to be named for fear of losing her job, told The Malay Mail Online today that Nor Afizah Hanum would be joining the AGC pool from July 1.

“No reasons for the transfer were given, nor exactly which department she will be transferred to,” said the official.

The Malay Mail Online also contacted Nor Afizah Hanum, but she declined to confirm her transfer.

“I decline to comment,” she said.

The AGC official also rubbished rumours that the transfer was due to the plain-speaking EAIC chief’s recent public disclosure of the commission’s shortcomings.

Nor Afizah Hanum’s departure leaves a vacancy in the top spot of the embattled commission set up in April 2011 to check power abuse within the various government enforcement agencies.

The AGC website also did not list a replacement for Nor Afizah Hanum.

A former Sessions Court judge, she had been seconded as secretary to the EAIC that is seen by many to be a poor substitute for the proposed Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC), mooted by a royal commission led by former Chief Justice Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah to implement sweeping reform in the police force that had drawn great public ire following a spike in custodial deaths.

The EAIC investigates complaints of misconduct against the police force, the Immigration Department, the Customs Department, the Rela Corps, the National Anti-Drug Agency, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, the Department of Environment, the Department of Occupational Safety and Health, the National Registration Department (NRD), the Department of Civil Aviation, the Road Transport Department (RTD), the Department of Industrial Relations, the Department of Fisheries, the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, the Manpower Department, the Health Ministry (Enforcement), the Tourism Ministry (Enforcement and Licensing units), the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry (Enforcement) and the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government (Enforcement).

Nor Afizah Hanum had been reported in an interview with The Malaysian Insider early this month that the EAIC was hobbled by only having one investigating officer to probe complaints of misconduct against 19 enforcement agencies.

It also has an annual budget of just RM7 million when it needed an annual budget of at least RM25 million, as well as at least 10 investigating officers and 10 research officers.

“We have very limited manpower,” Nor Afizah Hanum told The Malaysian Insider in an exclusive interview at her Putrajaya office on June 3.

“We had six investigator posts that we got from MACC. They withdrew five on 16th May,” she added, referring to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).