This study provides an overview of corruption in Malaysia. In 2014, the President of World Bank, Jim Young Kim, released a shocking statement which described corruption as dangerous activities than terrorism to the humanity as it is able to siphon off an estimated of $1 trillion from developing countries through bribery, money laundering, tax evasions, extortion and other financial crimes (CBC News, 2014). Apart from that, in Malaysia, the cost that Malaysia has to bear due to the corruption activities is as much as RM 10 billion per year, or 1 to 2 percent of gross domestic product annually (GTP 1.0, Fighting Corruption). These adverse effects have diverted government attention towards searching for effective measures to curb corruption thus resulted in a variety of anti-corruption initiatives in Malaysia.
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机译：本研究概述了马来西亚腐败。 2014年，2014年，世界银行主席Jim Young Kim发布了一个令人震惊的声明，它将腐败描述为危险的活动，而不是恐怖主义，因为它能够通过贿赂，洗钱，税收从发展中国家估计为1万亿美元的恐怖主义逃避，勒索和其他金融犯罪（CBC新闻，2014年）。除此之外，在马来西亚，马来西亚由于腐败活动必须承担的成本是每年100亿令吉，或每年的国内生产总值的1％至2％（GTP 1.0，战斗腐败）。这些不利影响转移了政府注意寻求遏制腐败的有效措施，从而导致马来西亚的各种反腐败举措。
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