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Parliament has approved the Competition Commission (Amendment) Bill 2026, granting Malaysia's competition regulator expanded investigative powers and penalty-setting authority to tackle increasingly sophisticated cartels and monopolistic practices.
Malaysia's parliament has passed the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2026, introducing tougher penalties for anti-competitive conduct and new criminal offences targeting those who obstruct competition investigations through data destruction.
Malaysia's proposed Competition (Amendment) Bill 2026 will expand the Malaysia Competition Commission's investigative powers and create new criminal offences to combat cartels exploiting digital technologies and disappearing messages to hide evidence.
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The Malaysian Competition Commission has moved against six companies suspected of colluding to manipulate bids for a RM5.7 million AADK tender, marking an escalation in cartel enforcement.