At the outset, it must be reiterated that corruption is a function of both greed and fear. When the benefits of greed exceed the intensity of fear, corruption is imminent, as is the case in our country. Now the intensity of fear is a product of the probability of being caught and the consequences of being caught. In less corrupt countries, the corrupt have a high probability of being caught and when caught, may have to cough out up to three times the loot and serve stiff sentences, all of which make the intensity of fear very high - typically higher than the benefits of greed. In a country like ours on the other hand, particularly for the big crooks, fruits of greed are plentiful, while the probability of being caught is very low and so are the consequences of being caught. In short, unless we try to create systems which ensure that the intensity of fear exceeds the fruits of greed, we are unlikely to be able to tackle corruption.
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The practical need now is not so much of a political confrontation, but to see that if the exchequer lost so much, so much should come back to the people as tariff concession and quality service. The instance may script a different political future, but to upset key elements now does not go well with the economy. That is the truth, convenient or otherwise, but we had better get used to it. These are the well-known symptoms of "morning sickness" after the nation conceived the ambition of becoming a global economic power, and I believe the conception was legitimate! Gains are likely to be delivered, but not before a natural period of gestation. Watch it, understand other possibilities, but violent shakeups now can lead to a serious miscarriage of the economy. When the time comes, you may swap the midwives for wives, but till then study the change in the system!
Now that is the theory of corruption. Also in theory, it is not as if the law of our land is silent on corruption. It does provide for sundry punishment for the corrupt. Also, in the imagined 'majesty of law' all are equal. But in practice, the seriously rich and the powerful are far more equal than the lesser mortals! For instance, with the enforcement directorate and the MACC operating as the handmaidens of the Government or the ruling political party, the actual probability of bringing the big crooks to book is very small. Also, even in theory, unfortunately, our laws don't provide for very stringent punishment for the guilty. Rarely does it call for exemplary financial penalties even if that means bankrupting the guilty (think back on all the financial scamsters whether readmore The truth is : DSAI will go to jail, unless rakyat stand behind our leader. more cover up. NAJIB you are one hell of the Devil in Disguise.
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 — Alcatel Lucent SA has agreed to pay more than US$137 million (RM430.4 million) to settle US charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials to win business in Latin America and Asia, US authorities said yesterday.
The telecommunications equipment maker was accused of making payments to government officials in countries including Costa Rica, Honduras, Taiwan and Malaysia to win or keep contracts worth tens of millions of dollars, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department said.
Between December 2001 and June 2006, the company used consultants who funneled more than US$8 million in bribes to officials, and Alcatel also improperly hired third-party agents in countries like Nigeria to help win deals, authorities said.
Overall, the company admitted it earned about US$48.1 million in profits as a result of the improper payments, the Justice Department said.
“Alcatel and its subsidiaries failed to detect or investigate numerous red flags suggesting their employees were directing sham consultants to provide gifts and payments to foreign government officials to illegally win business,” Robert Khuzami, head of the SEC’s enforcement division, said in a statement.
Alcatel was charged with two counts of violating the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and entered into a deferred prosecution agreement. Three of its subsidiaries agreed to plead guilty to one count each of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery law.
The company agreed to pay US$92 million to settle the criminal charges filed by the Justice Department and also pay more than US$45 million to settle the SEC’s civil charges.
In 2006, France’s Alcatel bought Lucent Technologies Inc, including its famous Bell Laboratories, which was the pioneer of many communications technologies. The company said the bribery violations occurred before the combination.
Alcatel set aside money for the settlements in the fourth quarter of 2009 and said they would not have an impact on its 2010 results.
“We take responsibility for and regret what happened and have implemented policies and procedures to prevent these violations from happening again,” Steve Reynolds, the company’s general counsel, said in a statement.
The case is the latest in a series of bribery cases brought by the Obama administration to crack down on illegal payments by businesses to win contracts.
The cases are: USA v. Alcatel-Lucent France SA et al, 10-cr-20906 and Securities and Exchange Commission v. Alcatel Lucent SA, 10-cv-24620, in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. — Reuters
. All natural resources and all land owned by the government (local governments included) for sale should be legislated to be offered transparently through on-line bidding mechanism, with highly restricted discretionary powers or exceptions. What is more, the entire process should be available for perusal in the public domain.
Concessional land allocation (mostly restricted to prime properties in practically every city) to civil servants, members of judiciary, armed forces, police et al, should be through a clearly spelt out process with due justification which should be made available for scrutiny on the public domain, before the allocation is made.
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Both parliamentarians and bureaucracy should be extremely well paid, but tolerance for corruption should be brought down to zero. A parliamentarian or a Secretary in the Government of \Malaysia may be paid a salary as high as, say,rm 360000 a year, but a corrupt Minister or Secretary should be divested of several times the stolen assets and also awarded rigorous imprisonment of several years
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The problems with such "solutions' is who implements them? How or why would the polity muster the necessary political will to put such reforms in place? To these questions all one can say is that one hopes that by introducing some of these reforms, also inherent in some of the measures announced by the UMNO, the incumbent party in power will hope to emerge more credible than ever before, unless the opposition wrests that credibility - either of the two riding the wave of mass-scale public disillusionment with the wide-spread corruption. Depending on who dithers the fight against corruption, we the public will know who stands for or against corruption.
But no solution to corruption can be entirely outward looking. A country of a billion people cannot be corrupt merely because a handful of politicians or civil servants are corrupt or unwilling to change their corrupt ways. The fact is, as a people, we have become slaves to corruption. If we have to free ourselves from this slavery as Mahatma Gandhi advocated, each and every one of us must become the change we want to see in ourselves. We cannot wait for others to change themselves first. Because if doing so is good strategy for us, it must be good strategy for others as well, so that no one ever makes a beginning at the change, waiting for others to change readmore Anwar Ibrahim’s mission IS TO UNDO UMNO INJUSTICE CAN THEY STOP HIM ?

And finally, we must learn to socially boycott those whom we know to have come to wealth through corrupt means. We must stop inviting them to public seminars, conferences and functions or to our weddings. The press should black out such characters except to expose their dark deeds. They should be treated with the contempt they deserve for looting our country. We must recognize that corruption is not a 'victimless' crime. In fact it is a crime of which each and every Indian is a victim. It is this crime that ensures that only 13 paise of every rupee of the public spend reaches the target. And this is the reason why six decades after independence, a large majority of our people does not have access to the most basic amenities of life, while our rulers -- some of whom are supposedly our servants - amass wealth in Swiss Banks. READMORE We have murders covered up for and they are lying on oath by police, doctors, AG chambers, judges and the government.
So let us all, including the four estates of the nation, make a resolution for a 2011 that will define a new India that will go to war against corruption.
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