Singapore keeps high score in fight against graft

Elsewhere, the current state of corruption speaks to a need for greater political integrity in many countries, says Transparency International

Angela Tan

Published Thu, Jan 23, 2020 · 09:50 PM

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Singapore

SINGAPORE has maintained its high global score in its fight against corruption even as graft has become more pervasive in the rest of the world, according to the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) on Thursday.

The city-state scored 85 on graft watchdog TI's 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index, which uses a scale that ranges from zero, for highly corrupt, to 100, for very clean. It is the only Asian country that made it to the global top 10.

Denmark and New Zealand shared the pole position, with a score of 87, in the CPI, which ranked 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector cor…