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Malaysia is among the countries that registered the highest illicit financial outflows from the period 2001 to 2010 , according to Global Financial Integrity ( GFI ) .

Officer of the Global Financial integrity ( GFI ) said financial inflows as dangerous to the country as well as illicit outflows , and a crime. - Photo AFP


GFI , based in Washington DC , in its report said that from 2001 to 2010 , a large amount of U.S. $ 285.24 billion ( RM860 billion ) illegally flowed out of Malaysia, according to the latest edition of the weekly " Focus Malaysia " .






" Almost 80 per cent or U.S. $ 227 billion is due to mispricing of transactions by Malaysian companies in which 20 percent or U.S. $ 57.6 billion is a result of the transfer of money to be invalid by companies or individuals , " said the report which stated Director of Communications GFI , Clark Gascoigne as saying.


He said a total of U.S. $ 122.67 billion is believed to have flowed illegally into the country in the same period , of which 98.5 percent is due to mispricing and 1.5 percent of the money transfer was "not recorded " .


GFI officials said financial inflows as dangerous to the country as well as illicit outflows , and a crime.


Illicit financial inflows can be taxed and it flows directly to the Malaysian underground economy , domestic financial crime , corruption and other illegal activities , he was quoted as saying in the report.


It is difficult to state the reasons behind the massive outflow of illicit capital that - without an in-depth study of Malaysia, which is outside the scope of the report.


Illicit outflows from Malaysia tend to flow into offshore tax havens and bank accounts in developed countries within the geographical region where it came from illicit outflows , according to the report.


Illegal money outflows from developed countries in Asia are likely to end up in Singapore , Hong Kong , Macau , Mauritius and Cooks Islands , or ended up in bank accounts in developed Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea .

The GFI report Malaysia being ranked third among developing countries for the amount of money that has been sent out of the country illegally in the first decade of this century , behind China and Mexico , respectively in first and second place . - Bernama