CPIB assistant director turns corrupt.

[cancer81]

you taking this way too far.

some ppl seem to suggest that not having a casino would have prevented this individual from using government funds to fuel his gambling habit.

it could have been anything. He could have traded forex, commodities or stocks lost and then started using monies that do not belong to him and pocketing the profits himself.
Heck, he could have simply spent the monies on himself. Case in point, the dude who bought a Ferrari for himself??

if that had happened, we should close the stock exchange? BTW civil servants are allowed to make investments, they have to declare all investments and debts annually.

I know that you will probably say with a casino right in their faces, normal mortal civil servants will be more easily tempted into gambling and more likely to succumb to the temptation of "borrowing" department funds. The same goes for everything else then.

 

[cancer81]

You count as one...

Sg has been touted as the city state that has solved the corruption problem by paying high salary.

Has anyone independent verified that corruption here is not systematic?

go and look at the corruption rankings NOT DONE by MSM??

btw you dun try to "worm" your way out of traffic offences when caught speeding right? Nor does the traffic police tell you he feels thirsty and needs to go and get kopi right?

THAT is systematic. Where officials actively do "rent seeking".

Besides, this is misappropriation. Corruption is taking monies/treats/favors from others in exchange for information/preferential treatment/unfair advantages.

One is a breach of trust and the other misuse of position

 

[superman]

Good argument except with a casino, gambling can be a daily affair. With one in Malaysia, you can't really travel there everyday to gamble.

Its not how many times you visit the casino that counts, its how much you gamble that counts. You can gamble away your whole fortune in a few minutes, don't need to visit many times.

 

[pyu]

*Shrug* We don't have rank and file corruption. We have something even worse - a government that is rent seeking.