Earthtimes.org
9 Aug 2008
Singapore - Foreigners are forming a rising proportion of graft cases in Singapore with many coming from cultures where buying favours is not uncommon, a news report said Saturday. The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, Singapore's anti-graft body, plans to inform new arrivals about the city-state's anti- tolerance for corruption.
"Definitely, as Singapore opens up and more foreigners start to come in, some are bound to have bad habits because of the different cultures they are used to," The Straits Times quoted the bureau's deputy director of operations Koh Teck Hin as saying.
The number of people accused of graft declined from 127 in 2006 to 90 last year, but foreigners accounted for 42 per cent of those charged in court in 2007, up from 34.6 per cent in 2006.
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