Transparency International: Belarus is highly corrupted country

• 26.10.2010, 13:07

Transparency International, an international organization, has published a report on the state of corruption worldwide.

According to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Belarus remains in the group of corrupted countries, “Radio Svaboda” reports.

Experts of Transparency International believe that corruption remains one of the major problems, together with instability of financial markets and poverty. The response to the global crisis should be intolerance to corruption, the authors of the report advise.

According to the list including 178 countries, three thirds of them received an index from zero to 5 and belong to the high level corruption zone. As noted in the report, instability of regimes and long-standing conflicts, as a rule, a accompanied by high corruption. This conclusion is demonstrated by three countries: Somalia (1.1), Myanmar (1.4) and Afghanistan (1.4). the lest corrupted countries are Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore (they all have an index of 9.3).

This year Belarus occupied the 124th position out of 178, but only thanks to alphabetical order it is a little higher than Equator, Nicaragua, Syria, Lebanon, Eastern Timor and Uganda. The index of these countries is the same, 2.5 out of 10. Belarus shares 124-130 positions with these countries. Last year Belarus occupied the 139th position and had an index of 2.4. Thus, improvement of the index is 0.1 per cent.

Estonia looks better than all other post-Soviet countries; with its 6.5 it takes the 26th position, right after France.