TIME ‘iktiraf’ Malaysia negara kedua rasuah di dunia

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TIME ‘iktiraf’ Malaysia negara kedua rasuah di dunia                        

23 Mac 2016 | ARIF ATAN         

Laman portal berita TIME
Malaysia sekali lagi terus dikenali di pentas antarabangsa tetapi dalam konteks negatif apabila tersenarai menduduki tempat kedua negara di dunia yang bergelut dengan rasuah.
Berada di bawah Brazil dalam senarai yang dikeluarkan majalah TIME versi ‘online’ itu, rekod tersebut dikaitkan dengan skandal 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) yang ditubuhkan Najib Razak pada tahun 2009.
Penulis, Ian Bremmer melalui artikel bertajuk, “These 5 Facts Explain the State of Global Corruption” antara lain berkata, hutang 1MDB sebanyak USD11 bilion pada tahun 2015 manakala USD681,000 telah didepositkan ke dalam akaun peribadi Najib.
Menurut majalah berita mingguan Amerika Syarikat itu, Najib mendakwa dana berkenaan adalah "hadiah" daripada keluarga diraja Arab Saudi dan kira-kira USD620,000,000 telah dikembalikan.
“Dua minggu lalu, siasatan 1MDB menemui bahawa jumlah yang disalurkan ke dalam akaun peribadi Najib sebenarnya kira-kira USD1 bilion,” lapor TIME.

Artikel yang meletakkan Afrika Selatan di tangga ketiga diikuti China dan diakhiri Rusia itu turut menyebut Najib telah menyingkirkan Peguam Negara yang telah mengetuai siasatan 1MDB.

Tinjauan Malaysia Dateline di laman web TIME hari ini mendapati artikel yang dimuat naik pada 17 Mac lalu itu berada di tempat teratas daripada lima berita dalam senarai “Most Popular Stories”.
Bagaimanapun, paparan penarafan gejala rasuah tersebut berserta foto wajah Najib kononnya menjadi muka depan majalah TIME yang pada masa ini sedang viral di media sosial disahkan palsu.

These 5 Facts Explain the State of Global Corruption

• Ian Bremmer
  

                                 March 17, 2016                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                              



Andre Penner—APDemonstrators hold a sign that reads in Portuguese "Dilma out" during a protest demanding the impeachment of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 16, 2015As Brazil grapples with an earth-shaking corruption scandal, a look at the state of global honesty



You can learn a lot about a country’s politics by looking closely at its corruption scandals. Who is investigating whom? What do the investigators really hope to achieve? And what do the investigations tell us about the country’s true balance of power? These five facts offer examples and answers.
1. Brazil
Brazil’s so-called Car Wash corruption scandal, which appears on the verge of bringing down a president, centers on Petrobras, the state-run oil giant. Last March, a top Petrobras official admitted that the company was awarding contracts in exchange for bribes, some of which were diverted to political slush funds. Brazil’s current president, Dilma Rousseff, was energy minister and chairwoman of Petrobras when the alleged kickbacks took place, though she has yet to be directly implicated in any wrongdoing.



But with an approval rating of just 21.8 percent, plenty of Brazilians see her as guilty by association—55.6 percent of Brazilians want to see her impeached. Former president and Rousseff mentor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was recently detained for questioning by police. Dozens of politicians are now under investigation, the vast majority of whom belong to Rousseff’s party. This is a country with a long history of official corruption: Four of five living former presidents are currently under investigation for one thing or another.
Tensions boiled over this weekend, and some 3 million Brazilians took to the streets. This type of social unrest would be a worrying sign for the country’s economy, but the Brazilian stock market surged 18 percent on news of Lula’s detention and speculation that Rousseff might finally be impeached—speculation that will grow stronger with the news that Rousseff may have offered Lula a cabinet post to help give him greater immunity from foreign prosecutors. And that’s the main takeaway here: Brazil is a country with a genuinely independent and empowered investigator capable of putting the country’s most powerful under a public microscope. Anti-corruption drives can create political chaos in the short-term, but they can benefit the country in the long-term if sunlight is used properly as a disinfectant.
(Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Economist)
2. Malaysia
That’s not the case with Malaysia. In 2009, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak established a sovereign wealth fund called 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) to help the country attract foreign investment and boost its economy. Long story short, by 2015, 1MDB owed investors $11 billion. As investigations of the state fund got underway, it was revealed that $681 million dollars had been deposited into Najib’s personal account. The prime minister copped to the money transfer, but claimed it was a “gift” from the Saudi royal family, about $620 million of which he says he has returned. Two weeks ago, the 1MDB investigation uncovered that the total routed into Najib’s personal account was actually about $1 billion.
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Malaysia is a de facto one-party country. All of the country’s six post-independence prime ministers have come from the United Malays National Organization (UMNO). That’s why Najib owes his position to his party, not to the Malaysian people—good news for a man currently polling at 23 percent, the lowest ever for a Malaysian head of government. He has spent the last half-decade strengthening his position within UMNO, and the past year since the 1MDB scandal broke purging his party of potential adversaries. This past summer, Najib fired his attorney general, who had been leading the 1MDB investigation. Malaysia exemplifies how corruption drives can fall short in countries with a single political party and weak governing institutions.
(The Wall Street Journal, CNBC (a), CNBC (b), Australian National University)
3. South Africa
Half a world away, South Africa tells much the same story. Like Najib, South African president Jacob Zuma has been dogged by corruption allegations for years. Most recently, Zuma has been accused of improperly using taxpayer money for “security upgrades” to his personal residence. These include construction of an amphitheater, a swimming pool, and a chicken run—because you can never be too careful. As of this writing, a South African court is hearing a case to reinstate 783—the actual number—corruption charges against him, which include pocketing kickbacks associated with arms deals. But like Najib, Zuma’s power comes from effective control of his political party rather than directly from the people—just 36 percent of South Africans approve of Zuma’s job performance in 2016, down from 64 percent in 2011. Don’t expect South Africa’s anti-corruption push to amount to much because this is a country where investigators are empowered to bring damaging allegations to light, but not to enforce their judgments. Zuma will probably survive through the end of his term in 2019.
(The Economist)
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4. China
In China, it’s the leader who runs the investigations. President Xi Jinping has presided over a far-reaching anti-corruption campaign, with a particular emphasis on curbing wasteful government spending. Over the last three years, punishments have been handed down to 750,000—also the actual number—party members. Corruption inspection teams have more than doubled their staff in recent years, and have gotten a boost from the Chinese people—since 2013, corruption inspectors have received more than 270,000 tips from the Chinese public. Beijing even launched a WeChat account in January to make reporting graft easier.




Of course, the anti-corruption push is politically useful for Xi. Aside from dealing with the country’s real corruption problem, the campaign aims to restore public confidence in the ruling party at a time when the Chinese economy is slowing. It also helps that the anti-graft crackdown ensures that Xi can sideline opponents of his political agenda ahead of next year’s leadership transition in which five of seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the pinnacle of the country’s leadership, are scheduled to be replaced.
(The Wall Street Journal (a) , The Wall Street Journal (b), Radio Free Asia)
5. Russia
The Kremlin has Russia’s corruption problem fully under control. At least that’s what the 90 percent of Russians who get their news from state-dominated media have been told. Vladimir Putin currently has an approval rating of 83 percent, so the message seems to be getting through. But non-Kremlin sources tell another story. On a scale of 1 to 7 where 7 is “most corrupt”, Freedom House ranks Russia a 6.75. This is a country where corruption investigations are tools used by one political/business faction to cut into another’s market share. These are not the kinds of investigations that strengthen a country or its economy.
(The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Freedom House)


     http://time.com/4262897/five-facts-globa-corruption/                                                                                                     

dauswq

masuk times tu, lps ni forbes lak..ker forbes pun dh ade gak?

pyropura

agenda halus yahudi zionis...

dauswq

That’s why Najib owes his position to his party, not to the Malaysian people—good news for a man currently polling at 23 percent, the lowest ever for a Malaysian head of government.

jap, mane dpt data approval rates tu smpu 23% ?
dr polling yg dibuat merdekacenter kah?

alieyrina

Tahniah  

AdamCopeland

indon mampu?

FOTHER-MUCKER

Hello ini satu fitnah untuk negara msia. Rasuah tu berdosa haram bla bla bla....Malaysia ni ramai orang Islam, kita orang nampak babi pun dah jijik...ini kan pula nak makan minum rasuah!

cpixie

kepada yang berkenaan, mohon tersedak

kentel

tipuuuu!!!! semua tu tipu.... kan AG dah sahkan tak ada salahlaku!!!!! ni smua agenda yahudi DAP...

(teriak simunggucai dijek)

cik_tonggek

hemdolelah nama malaysia melonjak lagi dipersada antarabangsa

Jagendas

So selasa minggu ke berapa najib nak saman TIME?

bioessence

Indonesia far worst
Nampak no menipu
Even Thailand pun up ckit je dari Indon
So selagi Msia prosperous selagi lead by muslim selagi tu la diburuk2an

missfake

harap najib saman the times sebab sebarkan artikel paslu pasal beliyau


-ameno sejati

XxNotTruexX

Hahahaha .. Rasuah di Malasia seperti kentut ... bahu busuk tercium di mana-mana .. tetapi tak ada satupun yang mengaku  ...semua mengaku suci dan mulia ...

gaara_X

persoalan...beranikah abg jib nak saman deme nie?????

ultra78

Mohon SKMM block website time.com

blackwidowbae

Bravo bravo! Tahniah jibbi!

EJALTI

Ini semua fitnah okehhhhhhhh.....Kerajaan pimpinan Bijan kepit dibawah seliaan Rossy adalah suci murni...

psychobubble

bangganya msia masuk time
akak terharu

pyropura

bioessence replied at 28-3-2016 11:48 AM
Indonesia far worst
Nampak no menipu
Even Thailand pun up ckit je dari Indon

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brasil & south aprika tu nugara Isle juga kah?