{
  "id": 1403181,
  "title": "Nanta: Four strategies identified to tackle contractor fraud",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/nanta-four-strategies-identified-to-tackle-contractor-fraud",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T02:50:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/regional/2026/08/1512790/nanta-four-strategies-identified-tackle-contractor-fraud"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Malaysian Works Minister, Alexander Nanta Linggi, has identified four strategies to tackle fraud involving registered and unregistered contractors, which have resulted in losses of up to hundreds of thousands of ringgit for victims. While verifying a contractor's registration with the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) is crucial, stronger enforcement, greater transparency, consumer education, and inter-agency cooperation are also necessary. The CIDB received 3,201 complaints between 2018 and 2025, primarily regarding breaches of contractual agreements, unsatisfactory construction quality, unregistered contractors, safety issues, and outstanding payments. To address this issue, CIDB has launched the Jom Bina Sempurna programme, aimed at raising homeowner awareness of the construction and renovation process and helping them choose contractors carefully, use contracts, monitor work, and make payments based on actual project progress.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}