Wednesday, January 27, 2016

UKRAINE HAS CLIMBED UP FOR ONLY 1 POINT IN THE WORLD RANKING OF CORRUPTION PERCEPTION

1 point again! Ukraine managed to gain only 1 additional point based on the results of the world Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2015. At present CPI of the country is 27 out of 100 possible that is 1 point higher than it was last year. 

Ukraine is ranked 130 out of 168 positions. In 2014 it was 142 out of 175 positions. Such result was achieved due to public judgment of corrupt officials, establishment of anti-corruption bodies and emergence of the whistleblowers’ movement. And the delay with real punishment of bribe takers, and establishing corrupt relations between business and the Government do not allow Ukraine to take a decisive step forward according to the CPI.

Ukraine succeeded to get the higher position in the ranking because of the critical attitude of the society to corrupt officials. This is evidenced from the data survey of the Bertelsmann Foundation Transformation Index that is taken into account when determining the CPI. 


A number of whistleblowers have increased, as well as the materials about corrupt officials in media, so the Government has to respond. Representatives of legislative and executive branches fewer and fewer use their powers for unlawful enrichment, being afraid of ruining the image in the eyes of the society.  However, the matter of inevitability of punishment leaves much to be desired. At present high-ranking officials are rarely brought to responsibility and are proper punished for their crimes.

A slight progress is seen in a part of establishment of anti-corruption institutions, which was indicated in the survey of the Freedom House Nations in Transit. 

The Government has really done a number of positive steps toward establishing the legislation as to important anti-corruption bodies, but it is slow with its implementation. One of the touchy subjects remains trying of the Government to control personally the management of these bodies.

Interaction between business and the Government affected the CPI in the worst way. For the last year the corruption level has increased in the matter of providing businessmen with public facilities and annual tax liabilities. 

As a result, Ukraine has scored -3 points according to the World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey. At the same time slight improvement as to rendering judgments in favor of entrepreneurs and public officials’ ethics when interacting with businessmen has happened. But the positive side of these issues has not turned the scale of negative in interrelations between utility providers and taxmen.


 “The data of the CPI 2015 confirm that driving force of changes in Ukraine are citizens: civil society organizations, journalists-investigator and whistleblowers. It is they who control public officials, cases against corrupt officials in power get to the court under their pressure. But the system resists and in fact hardly anybody from corrupt officials are fairly punished”, comments the results of the CPI 2015 Oleksii Khmara, the Executive Director of Transparency International Ukraine.

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