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Albania, Romania lead Balkan corruption - survey
SOFIA, March 22, 2001
Reuters
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Corruption is widespread in seven
Balkan states with Albania and Romania most affected by graft, two
independent think-tanks said on Thursday. The joint survey of
public opinion by the International Development Law Institute in
Rome and Bulgaria's Centre for Study of Democracy (CSD), covered
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia,
Romania and Yugoslavia.
More than 7,500 interviews formed the
basis of the report. "Corruption poses the biggest problem in
Albania and Romania where respectively 60.8 percent and 59.9
percent of those polled say it was their country's main problem,"
Alexander Stoyanov, CSD deputy director, told a news conference.
The survey used an index measuring people's assesment of the extent
of corruption. It was highest in Romania with 7.3 and Albania at
6.8, followed by Serbia's 6.6, Bulgaria's 6.5, Bosnia and
Herzegovina at 6.2, and Macedonia, Croatia and Montenegro all set
at 5.8.
The main factors were the desire for
fast personal enrichment by those in power, low salaries,
inadequate legislation and lack of administrative controls. In
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovia, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia
customs departments were seen as the most corrupt institutions
while in Croatia and Romania people believed corruption was most
widely spread in their privatisation agencies.
In most states, customs officers,
government ministers, police and taxmen led professions most
susceptible to graft. In Albania people said corruption was most
widespread among doctors.
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