KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysia has moved up 10 notches to the 51st spot among 180 countries in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index for 2019.
Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) president Dr Muhammad Mohan said Malaysia’s score also improved to 53 out of 100 points on the CPI survey, an improvement from the 47 points it obtained the previous year.
He attributed the improvement in the global ranking to the swift action taken by the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government to address the scandals in 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), SRC International, Felda and Tabung Haji after it came to power.
Muhammad addressed a press conference when announcing Malaysia’s CPI for 2019. The CPI was released by Transparency International, the global anti-corruption coalition today.
The CPI scores and ranks are based on 13 surveys and expert assessments which measure the perceived level of corruption in a country’s public sector on a scale from zero (perceived to be highly corrupted) to 100 (perceived to be very clean).
