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Transparency International survey: SAF must be corrupt!

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S'pore at 'high risk' of military graft

Reuters
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013


BRUSSELS - More than two thirds of the territories in the world, including many of the largest arms traders, have inadequate safeguards to prevent corruption in their defence sectors, a survey by an anti-corruption watchdog said yesterday.


Germany and Australia are the only territories out of 82 surveyed by Transparency International UK with strong anti-corruption mechanisms, according to what the watchdog says is the first index measuring how governments counter corruption in defence.


Fifty-seven of the territories, almost 70 per cent, had poor controls against corruption, according to the survey, which rated governments by criteria such as the strength of parliamentary oversight of defence policy and the standards expected of defence firms.


China, Russia and Israel, all leading arms exporters, were considered to be at high risk of corruption in their defence sectors. Among top arms importers, India, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Thailand and Turkey were in the high-risk category.


Nine territories - Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Syria and Yemen - are at "critical risk" of corruption in their defence sector, lacking basic accountability measures.


Territories classed as being at "very high risk" of corruption include Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka.


The United States, Britain, Sweden and South Korea were among countries judged to be at low risk, while France, Spain, Italy and Poland were in the moderate-risk group.


The territories surveyed account for 94 per cent of global military expenditure in 2011, worth US$1.6 trillion (S$2 trillion), while the global cost of corruption in the defence sector is estimated to be at least US$20 billion a year, the watchdog said.


Mr Mark Pyman, director of Transparency International UK's Defence and Security Programme, said he hoped the survey would lead governments to improve anti-corruption policies.


Governments surveyed were given the chance to review Transparency International's findings.


Mr Pyman said a "shocking" result of the survey was that in half of the territories surveyed, the defence budget was either not public or it contained no breakdown of spending.

 
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