It has to do with the socio-political system and culture

I just read Su's latest post titled "Would they give away their wealth like Tun Sambanthan? "
She wrote :
"One of the first Ministers I had the great privilege of working for, almost 35 years ago, was the late Honourable Tun V.T. Sambanthan (1919-1979), the fifth President of the Malaysian Indian Congress (1955). ....................
............Although Tun V.T. Sambanthan was born into a rich family he spent all his personal wealth on the MIC and the people who approached him for asistance. It is a well known fact that Tun Sambanthan gave up his fortune for his people."

This led me to look at present day's China leaders, Singapore leaders, Ah Bien of Taiwan, the late Mr President Roh of Korea and our country's leaders, American leaders , leaders of the West, the Russian leaders etc.. I could not find a correlation between a clean leader and his family wealth before he becomes a leader. Neither can I find a country totally free from self serving leaders. But do not get me wrong. I am not saying corruption is tolerable . My point is we really need a socio-political system and culture that has the in-built effective check and balance mechnism to minimise s such intolerable practice of the country' leaders and those leaders who manage to escape the scrutiny of this check and balance mechnism will surely could not enjoy freely the wealth they have accumulated.