Graft: Is anybody immune?


The corruption cancer may be far removed from most ordinary people, yet it affects them disproportionately, says the writer. — 123rf

SINCE the year dot, we’ve been talking about corruption. We used to talk about how sometimes you can hand over RM50 or so to get something done, or just done faster, and not worry about it.

But just like inflation, these little notes also began to grow. Until, as we found out, those sums grew into billions.

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