Macau maintained its sixth position in the annual corruption perception ranking from Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd, released yesterday. The ranking only covers the Asia Pacific region and compares the perceptions of corruption of foreign expatriates towards the places where they conduct business. Macau remains the sixth ranked with a grade of 2.85, much lower than the 4.68 points it scored last year, according to a press release from Macau’s Commission Against Corruption. The assessment views 10 points as the most corrupt and a lower grade reflects a better integrity situation. Among the 16 countries and regions surveyed, the three cleanest countries are Singapore, Australia and Japan. According to the graft buster’s press release, “with regard to the comments saying that some of the overseas casinos (e.g. those in Macau) have been commonly used as a channel of money laundering, a majority of the respondents do not agree with it.”
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