Seriously. I must congratulate our dearest government for a job well done. I am so impressed that our PM has personally come out in his shock and horror garb to congratulate the Anti Corruption Agency (ACA) for a job well done. From an article:
The detention of two top Immigration officers by the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) in investigations into allegations of bribery in the issuance of visas to foreign workers showed that even big fish would not be let off the hook, said the Prime Minister.
I am curious as to how much does one need to steal in order to pass the benchmark to be a big fish. It’s nice to know, in case anyone wants to show off and be called a big fish, to make up for other lesser attributes.
According to this article:
The sources said syndicate members collected between RM1,500 and RM6,000 to extend each social visit pass for between one and six months. The sources said senior officers get between RM500 and RM700 per passport for a single extension while top officers get between RM10,000 and RM20,000 per agent per month.
Let’s do some quickie math.
Assuming that the agents pay a spread of fees depending on the size of their clientele and it averages RM 15,000 per month, this means that the DG has collected RM 180,000 per agent each year. As another 11 people had been arrested, we can assume that these were agents, which brings our grand total to just under RM 2 million per year. Now, we have arrived at what is considered a benchmark big fish in Malaysia.
A paltry RM 2 million is all it takes! That’s not really very much, when considered against the backdrop of 300 billion or more that have been siphoned out as estimated by Morgan Stanley. It is less than 0.0006% and is hardly even a drop in the ocean and we’re expected to swallow this as a big meal. What kind of cheap people does our PM think we are anyway.
RM 2 million is small fry lar, not big fish. Any statistician can tell you that 0.0006% is insignificant. To enter the realms of significance (0.5%), the DG would have to do it for more than 800 years. I doubt that he has been sitting in his position since before the great Malacca Sultanate or even the earlier Kedah Sultanate were existent in the country.
And the funniest thing is what we end up doing with these people. They end up being transferred to the Public Service Department! So, the PSD is the retirement agency for corrupt civil servants. Now I’m beginning to understand why there are so many problems in the PSD.
PS: As the poster shows: Coming Soon! I am still waiting for the big fish to swim into the net.
Sybreon Ones Nought 