SINGAPORE: With the recent spate of scandals involving top civil servants, and a
slip in ranking on a corruption index, is Singapore becoming more corrupt?
Not so, asserts the Corrupt
Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB).
Singapore slipped from 1st to 5th
on the Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index last year.
But in its annual report, CPIB
said Singapore's score of 9.2 out of 10 means the country is perceived as being
very clean.
Last year, CPIB received 757
complaints - the lowest in the last five years.
CPIB director Eric Tan stressed
that with strong political will and a whole-of-government approach, Singapore
is one of the least corrupt countries in the world.
However, he noted that low
corruption does not mean no corruption.
CPIB celebrates its 60th
anniversary next month, and its history is documented in a heritage centre at
the CPIB building at Lengkok Bahru.
Exhibits include the commission
of inquiry proceedings into the corruption case involving former National
Development Minister Teh Cheang Wan.
- CNA/cc
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