The MACC will continue to carry out operations, arrests and bring high-profile and public interest cases to court despite the implementation of movement restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Its chief commissioner Azam Baki said the MACC had opened 687 investigation papers between January and August this year, including 149 investigation papers in the "high-profile, public interest and sensitive" category, while 538 were in the ordinary category.

The number of arrests recorded during the period was...