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Gay Loong should have offered this type of Malaysian special FT status with shitizenship and new ministerial position. This Pua cheebye really know how to praise PAP wayang corruption cases, but never mention the big fish like condo discounts, etc. He talked until like PAP super clean and white. Puts Kee Chiu, Shagyourmama, Hri Kumar, Amy Khock, etc to shame. Malaysian really boleh lah.
Pua: More graft charges in Singapore despite ‘thinner’ audit report - See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/m...ite-thinner-audit-report#sthash.R9qCGVCX.dpuf
KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 — DAP’s Tony Pua today pilloried a minister for his use of the federal audit’s thickness as a gauge of accountability, noting that Singapore has prosecuted more high-profile corruption cases involving civil servants despite its “thinner” report.
. Rubbishing Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Paul Low’s use of the yardstick, the Petaling Jaya Utara MP said Malaysia’s volumes upon volumes of reported leakages amounted to little, as no action was taken by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) despite the billions in losses. “There could be so many reasons why the Singapore audit report is so much thinner than that of Malaysia’s, including the fact that Singapore has much better accountability, transparency and compliance norms that do not require their Auditor-General to deliver such ‘thick’ reports as found in Malaysia. “In fact, the Minister should perhaps be more concerned with the fact that our reports are thicker because there is so much to report in Malaysia, demonstrating that there is a high degree of incompetence, negligence, wastage and even corruption in the country,” Pua said in a statement here. Calling Low’s remarks “incredulous”, Pua reminded the minister in the prime minister’s department that Malaysia is currently ranked number 53 on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI) last year while Singapore is currently ranked number five. The Petaling Jaya Utara MP added that even with the high TI-CPI rankings, Singapore’s corrupt civil servants have been charged and found guilty in many high-profile corruption cases.
Among others, he cited the case of Tey Hsun Hang, a professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), who on May 13 last year, was found guilty of six charges of corruption including two acts of sexual intercourse with, and the receipt of four gifts of varying monetary values from, one of his law students. Tey was sentenced to five months in jail. The DAP MP also cited the case involving Edwin Yeo, an assistant director at Singapore’s anti-corruption agency who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February this year after pleading guilty to misappropriating about S$1.76 million (RM4.3 million) in public funds. “The fact that the Malaysian Auditor-General’s report which is many times thicker than Singapore’s 70-page report failed to find any guilty party for the hundreds of millions of losses is not a point of self-praise, but a disgraceful black mark on the performance of our ‘transparency’ minister and the government,” Pua added. During a press briefing on the Auditor-General’s 2013 Report (second series) yesterday, Low suggested that Malaysia’s thicker volume indicated better accountability vis-a-vis Singapore, after saying the island-state only managed 70 pages in its audit. Once an “annual tale of horrors”, as described by DAP’s Lim Kit Siang, the A-G’s Report is now tabled thrice yearly, inducing the usual teeth-gnashing from the public over the financial mismanagement and abuses by government that cost taxpayers billions of ringgit each year. - See more at:
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/m...ite-thinner-audit-report#sthash.R9qCGVCX.dpuf
Pua: More graft charges in Singapore despite ‘thinner’ audit report - See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/m...ite-thinner-audit-report#sthash.R9qCGVCX.dpuf
KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 — DAP’s Tony Pua today pilloried a minister for his use of the federal audit’s thickness as a gauge of accountability, noting that Singapore has prosecuted more high-profile corruption cases involving civil servants despite its “thinner” report.
. Rubbishing Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Paul Low’s use of the yardstick, the Petaling Jaya Utara MP said Malaysia’s volumes upon volumes of reported leakages amounted to little, as no action was taken by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) despite the billions in losses. “There could be so many reasons why the Singapore audit report is so much thinner than that of Malaysia’s, including the fact that Singapore has much better accountability, transparency and compliance norms that do not require their Auditor-General to deliver such ‘thick’ reports as found in Malaysia. “In fact, the Minister should perhaps be more concerned with the fact that our reports are thicker because there is so much to report in Malaysia, demonstrating that there is a high degree of incompetence, negligence, wastage and even corruption in the country,” Pua said in a statement here. Calling Low’s remarks “incredulous”, Pua reminded the minister in the prime minister’s department that Malaysia is currently ranked number 53 on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI) last year while Singapore is currently ranked number five. The Petaling Jaya Utara MP added that even with the high TI-CPI rankings, Singapore’s corrupt civil servants have been charged and found guilty in many high-profile corruption cases.
Among others, he cited the case of Tey Hsun Hang, a professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), who on May 13 last year, was found guilty of six charges of corruption including two acts of sexual intercourse with, and the receipt of four gifts of varying monetary values from, one of his law students. Tey was sentenced to five months in jail. The DAP MP also cited the case involving Edwin Yeo, an assistant director at Singapore’s anti-corruption agency who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February this year after pleading guilty to misappropriating about S$1.76 million (RM4.3 million) in public funds. “The fact that the Malaysian Auditor-General’s report which is many times thicker than Singapore’s 70-page report failed to find any guilty party for the hundreds of millions of losses is not a point of self-praise, but a disgraceful black mark on the performance of our ‘transparency’ minister and the government,” Pua added. During a press briefing on the Auditor-General’s 2013 Report (second series) yesterday, Low suggested that Malaysia’s thicker volume indicated better accountability vis-a-vis Singapore, after saying the island-state only managed 70 pages in its audit. Once an “annual tale of horrors”, as described by DAP’s Lim Kit Siang, the A-G’s Report is now tabled thrice yearly, inducing the usual teeth-gnashing from the public over the financial mismanagement and abuses by government that cost taxpayers billions of ringgit each year. - See more at:
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/m...ite-thinner-audit-report#sthash.R9qCGVCX.dpuf
