Singapore has long prided — and touted — itself as a place where the type of corruption rampant elsewhere in Asia simply does not exist. The high salaries paid to Singapore officials — junior cabinet ministers earn $750,000 and the prime minister gets $1.7 million — are supposed to forestall financial temptation.

But a recent string of high-profile corruption scandals has highlighted Singapore officials’ weakness to other forms of temptation as well.

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