An emotional Deputy Tourism and Culture Minister Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said today she had been in the dark over the involvement of non-Bumiputeras in the company tasked with managing the ministry's latest system to prevent umrah package frauds.

"In fact a day before pitching, I asked my officers again, are there non-Bumiputeras in the company or other issues?

"From the information I received, there was none," Mas Ermieyati told a press conference at the Malaysian Tourism Information Centre in Kuala Lumpur this evening...