KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 -- The new Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief hopes the government will soon table in Parliament its plan to compel companies to disclose the identities of the shadowy owners who are unnamed in the register but profit from the business.

Latheefa Koya said the proposed amendment to the MACC Act 2009 is necessary to expose the real owners in companies who often hide behind proxies and cited the ongoing court cases of the scandal-tainted 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and its former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd as examples.

"The SRC International's case which is currently on trial and other big cases that have been charged in court by MACC, particularly the 1MDB and the one that involves th...