October 17, 2012
UN Representative: Mainstream Media is misread him upon Corruption
by Susan Loone@www.malaysiakini.com
Dimitri Vlassis (above), who is arch of UNODC's crime as well as economic crime branch, pronounced some of his comments as well as responses during a press discussion held in Kuala Lumpur 10 days ago were misunderstood or taken out of context. Vlassis pronounced he wanted to suggest clarifications as consequently those comments were "misinterpreted as well as might have combined erroneous" impressions.
According to a UN representative, he commended a MACC for organising 
the 6th annual discussion as well as ubiquitous assembly of a International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) in Kuala Lumpur.
During a press conference, Vlassis pronounced he was asked about a IAACA discussion as well as whether it was worth a expenditure. "I responded which IAACA was a only home of anti-corruption agencies as well as which a discussion served a really useful role of bringing those specialised agencies together, helping them sell views as well as practice as well as make firm ubiquitous cooperation.
"UNODC has been a supporter of IAACA given a investiture as well as considers each event to grasp those goals a estimable one," he combined in a matt! er to
"I commended a MACC for organising a discussion as well as thanked it for a liberality to all participants, including to me as well as alternative colleagues from UNODC or UNDP."
'Anti-corruption campaigners horrified'
The MP for Ipoh Timor, Lim Kit Siang, took Vlassis to charge for a comments reported by a mainstream media, particularly a October 7 New Straits Times report, which Lim saidhad "horrified" anti-corruption campaigners in Malaysia.
Malaysiakini had sent Lim's matter to Vlassis around a UNODC's regional secretariat formed in Bangkok, Thailand, upon October 10, for his response.
Lim, who is DAP inhabitant adviser, pronounced a comment by Vlassis was a "major blow" as well as undermined efforts to get Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's supervision to find a domestic will to quarrel corruption, especially those involving top domestic as well as open personalities.
Vlassis was additionally asked to clear his matter upon MACC's performance, given a Transparency International's (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) had indicated Malaysia's ranking as well as measure for 2011 to be a lowest upon record.
Lim had additionally slammed Vlassis for using a IAACA Conference to run down a credit as well as usefulness of a TI CPI, by dismissing it as "outdated", "counter-productive" as well as "does not offer anyone's purpose".
As a outcome of a comments, Lim added, Vlassis appeared to be sending a message to Malaysians which they do not have to be overly disturbed about Malaysia dropping to a misfortune 60th ranking with a lowest measure of 4.3 in seventeen years of TI's crime notice survey.
In response, Vlassis pronounced he was asked about crime in Malaysia as well as responded which he was not in a in front of to pass judgment upon a matter since it was beyond his charge and, therefore, inapt to evaluate a country's performance.
No comment upon review
He pronounced Malaysia was being reviewed this year under a Implementation Review Mechanism of a UNCAC as well as a reviewers were a Philippines as well as Kenya.
The review was proceeding during a brisk pace, which was an denote of how severely Malaysia was taking a appearance in a mechanism.
"Then we pronounced which we could not go in to any serve details, or comment upon a formula of a review, since we was bound by a avocation of confidentiality imposed upon me," Vlassis said.
"In reply to a question upon Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index, we pronounced which this was an critical tool in raising recognition around a globe, obscure toleration of crime as well as gripping a emanate high upon a domestic as well as societal agendas," he added.
"However, we expressed misgivings about a one after another usefulness, in view of a actuality which a complexity of crime does not lend itself to efforts to revoke all to a single figure as well as embody it in an index."
Vlassis pronounced a Implementation Review Mechanism released a ranking of states as it has valid which such rankings might be counter-productive.
Countries, he added, should compare themselves only to themselves as well as not to others, as there were numerous nuances in a ! implemen tation of a convention.
He additionally pronounced he did not have a assembly with Najib as well as merely shook a prime minister's hand upon a lectern during a opening of a conference, where he spoke before Najib did.
"At a press conference, we pronounced which in all anti-corruption efforts, in both a open as well as private sectors, a tinge from a top was key as well as which Najib's participation during a opening of a discussion carried symbolic significance," Vlassis added.
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