MINDING THE GAP ON SOCIETAL CORRUPTION

This paper highlights what seems to be a current issue in our country: lauding wrongdoings, breach of trust, power abuse, and money laundering, to name a few. Hot media topics are the cases that have surfaced one by one on corruption in leading organizations, government-linked in nature. When
examining the crux of it all, everything seems to point to basic talent and people issues. As such, there is a need to mind the gap on addressing societal corruption. Accordingly, this paper shares some interesting data and statistics from various reliable sources, as indicated.Further, a simple overview of corruption and insights are shared in this paper based on a talk by Dato Sri Akhbar Sattar. The talk titled "Corruption and Governance: The Rise and Fall” was organized by our faculty niche cluster, Forensic Fraud Risk Management, on 9 November 2018 in Shah Alam,. Dato' Sri Akhbar Satar shared concerns over integrity amongst the citizens of Malaysia. Integrity is defined as being honest, and having strong moral principles. This is followed by the call to action that one must not pursue personal interests.