Angaende mutor pa 25-30% är det en hörsägen eller har du belägg för detta pastaende? Manga byggbolag fuskar i Sverige ocksa. Mutor där ocksa?
Perceptions regarding corruption in Thailand showed a slight improvement as gauged by the most recent Corruption Situation Index, but the severity of the problem remains the same, costing 25-30% of the government's budget.
25%+ is too high a price to pay.
Twenty-five plus is the average percentage of under-the-table fees - or gao jia (dog eats) as the Chinese call it - that businessmen are made to pay to corrupt politicians and bureaucrats in order to secure a concession, procurement or construction contract from government agencies these days.
The above is the outcome of a survey conducted by the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce among businessmen who have to deal with the crooks who have a say in awarding contracts to anyone who offers the sweetest deals.
Most infrastructure projects are hampered by corruption at every phase of the project, in which high-level government officials are often involved. Several corruption scandals within infrastructure, telecommunications and other public utilities are being uncovered as a result of the investigation of former Prime Minister Thaksin and his party's abuse of power.
A 79-year-old businessman pointed to rising costs of doing business, including bribes for officials.
“I am an industrialist. I cannot stand anymore because we have to pay under the table so much money," he said. "Before, all right you have to accept that before it was about five and ten per cent. But now it’s a minimum 30 per cent - minimum is 30 per cent."
In Thailand's case, corruption is so rampant that it is hard to avoid reading about it when one opens a newspaper. The most telling indication of its severity came up when businessmen complained that they could no longer put up with it because, to win a government contract, they needed to pay some 30% of the project cost to the officials involved.
More recent examples abound:
The hand-held bomb detectors which even the British government said were useless, as did a Thai testing facility, which the Army and Police swore were effective and cost between US$28,000 and US$37,500 each (totaling US$1.5 million) but which proved to be worthless, "less effective than flipping a coin".
The Army's new US$9.7 million helium-filled blimp which has not yet met specs—another boondoggle.
The ten-year lease of 4,000 new buses for the city of Bangkok to replace its aging fleet, at a cost of US$2.05 billion (about US$508,000 per bus).
A high-speed rail line from Kunming in southern China through Laos and down the length of Thailand into northern Malaysia. The scheme, priced at US$11 billion and change, is reputed to be the new all-you-can-eat-buffet for the politicos and other influential persons and groups with their wallets out.
In a recent example from August 2010, U.S.-based tobacco sellers paying off officials of the Thai Tobacco Monopoly to the tune of US$1.9 million to buy tobacco from their sources.
The September 2010 revelations that US$1.6 million in disaster relief funds, intended to aid flood victims, have been diverted to officials in many provinces across the country.