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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