The cost of doing business often involves bribes. Photo: AFP
We all know this story: A law-abiding Singaporean citizen, the kind who takes the trouble to make a police report if he sees an illegal U-turn on Singapore streets (seriously, they exist), will turn into a speed maniac when they drive over the Causeway and across the Straits of Johor into Malaysia.
It’s like the air in Malaysia is different or something. It was reported in November last year that Malaysian police had issued 50,616 summonses to Singaporean drivers since 2014, out of which 37,506 had yet to be settled (tinyurl.com/str2-speed). If you assume the minimum payment is RM300 per summons, that’s more than RM11mil worth of fines right there.
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