KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 — About 500 board members and employees of the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp) have pledged to uphold integrity and good governance practices before the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

It is the first Malaysian railway organisation to publicly commit as such in the October 5 ceremony, its chief executive Datuk Seri Shahril Mokhtar said in a statement today.

"Being the first government-owned railway company to make the Corruption-Free Pledge, MRT Corp has to make sure that the event was not just a big show,” he said.

Shahril said the company was proud its corruption-free standards as the owner and developer of the Klang Valley MRT (KVMRT) had been recognised by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak who pointed out MRT Corp as a corporate benchmark for others in the government procurement process.

He added MRT Corp’s commitment to transparency is practised not only in big-ticket procurement processes but also shows in publishing its annual financial statements when it does not have to do so as it is not a public-listed company.

"The company believes that it has a duty to the rakyat, to be as transparent and accountable to them as it has been entrusted with taxpayers’ money to develop the KVMRT Project,” Shahril said.