International anti-graft fund named after Mahathir
IAACA says the Dr Mahathir Mohamad Fund will help anti-graft officers to carry out their duties.
The International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) today launched the Dr Mahahthir Mohamad Fund to help anti-graft officers who face risks in the line of duty.
The announcement was made by IAACA president Ali Fetais Al-Marri during his opening address at the 10th IAACA Annual Conference and General Meeting at the Vienna International Centre.
Al-Marri, who is also Qatar attorney-general, said the fund carried the name of the Malaysian prime minister in recognition of his efforts in fighting graft.
He added Qatar had agreed to start up the fund with 1 million Qatari riyal (RM1.14 million).
In Mahathir's own address, he said international cooperation is vital in combating corruption and crimes, due to porous borders where money can be easily moved from one country to another.
Malaysia, he added, experienced this when funds were transferred from 1MDB and laundered in the United States.
"We believe the IAACA is very important, because borders are now very porous. International cooperation also helps in reducing crimes,” he said in his keynote address at the assembly.
In his 40-minute speech, Mahathir said there were poor countries that could not become rich and develop accordingly because of corruption.
The prime minister said it was necessary that countries fight graft and make sure that their leaders were not corrupt.
- Bernama
What a bad choice! Did not one biographer of the old man accuse him of having accumulated millions in a foreign country? He has not denied it.The writer, I believe, died. thereafter.
The biggest joke in Malaysian history.
This is about the quirkiest announcement in a long time. Qatar, mind you although not as diabolical as its current foe Saudi Arabia, has been accused of supporting terrorism for a very long time. So it behoves Qatar to whip out its wallet from its very deep pocket to honour a fellow Muslim so as to put the ummah in the forefront and in the headlights of the global effort to fight corruption at least. I see the headlights shining strongly at Saudi Arabia. While this will be read in the Middle East as a scoop for Qatar which has repeatedly shown its might through money and lots of it the media at home (read Bernama) will go to town on this one as Mahathir is lauded for what remains fundamentally a very clever sleight of Arabian hand!