Malaysia is world champion in corruption
Washington Post
Despite Malaysia‘s high-profile anti-corruption crusade, half of the corporate executives surveyed by a global corruption watchdog believe that competitors have obtained business in the country through bribery.
Transparency
International said Malaysia scored worst in the 2012 Bribe
Payers Survey. It asked nearly 3,000
executives from 30 countries whether they had lost a contract in the past year
because competitors paid a bribe, and in Malaysia, 50% of them said ‘yes’.
Second on the dubious honor roll was Mexico, which was at 48%.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Japan was ranked as the world’s
least-corrupt place to do business, with just 2% of respondents saying they had
lost out due to bribery.
Malaysia‘s neighbor Singapore was second-cleanest, which was at 9%.
Even Indonesia, with a long-standing reputation for corruption, fared better than more-developed Malaysia. By comparison, 27% of respondents in China said they thought bribes had cost them business, the report said.
“It shows the attitude of private companies in Malaysia, indicating that
bribery in the public sector could be systemic and in a sense
institutionalized,” Paul Low, president of the Malaysian chapter of
Transparency International, said.
Why not
when the President of the apex organization for fight corruption i.e.
Transparency International Malaysia himself is not perfect. His has a
questionable integrity. He also does not practice transparency by getting the
Federation Of Manufacturers Malaysia to control Transparency International
Malaysia.
Moreover
Transparency International Malaysia has been receiving annual grant of between
MYR 300,000 to MYR 1 million from PETRONAS apart from PETRONAS taking care of
all administrative expenses in Transparency International Malaysia for the last
10 years. So does Transparency International Malaysia qualifies to be called a
“NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION” especially with many members including the
President himself sitting on board of directors and commissions of many
governmental organizations and government linked companies?
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