{"id":448015,"date":"2020-02-17T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448015"},"modified":"2020-02-17T20:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T20:44:43","slug":"how-corrupt-the-moldovan-citizens-are-comparative-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/how-corrupt-the-moldovan-citizens-are-comparative-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"How corrupt Moldovan citizens are? Comparative figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>When talking about corruption, most of Moldovan citizens blame the &#8216;system&#8217; built by politicians and their political regimes throughout history. And that may be true, but only to some degree. When looking deeper, it can be actually observed that little corruption acts are perceived as a normality by a lot of individuals and legal entities in the country. That is what is shown in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/Arhiva\/90005\/Lansarea-studiului-sociologic-privind-evaluarea-impactului-Strategiei-Nationale-de-Integritate-si-Anticoruptie-pentru-anii-2017-2020\">study<\/a> conducted by\u00a0by the <strong>Center for Social Studies and Marketing &#8220;CBS &#8211; Research&#8221;<\/strong>. The study\u00a0assessed the impact of the National Integrity and Anticorruption Strategy for the years 2017-2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0516 million lei<\/strong> &#8211; this is the total amount of bribes offered by Moldovans in 2019. On average,<span style=\"color: #993300\"> a Moldovan citizen has offered at least five bribes, while an enterprise has been involved in about three corruption acts.<\/span>\u00a0Businesses paid bribes worth 197,3 million lei, while individuals offered a total of 319,4 million lei as bribes during the last year, estimated the study. The value of the one illegal payment ranged from 50 to 20 thousand lei.<\/p>\n<p>The research was carried out on the basis of a national survey where 1 120 persons, 506 companies and 606 civil servants from central, district and local public administration participated. The data were presented in comparison to the situation in 2017, when the first such survey was conducted. It\u00a0was carried out within the project <em>&#8220;Fight against corruption by strengthening integrity in the Republic of Moldova&#8221;<\/em>, implemented by UNDP in collaboration with the National Anticorruption Center, and the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The total value of the bribes offered by Moldovans is lower, however, compared to those from two years ago, when the amounts varied between 100 and 500 thousand lei in the case of companies and between 50 lei and 8 thousand lei in the case of individuals, as the study stated.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the study affirmed that corruption remains a serious problem for the Moldovan society, <span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">the level of intolerance of the population towards corruption has increased<\/span>.<\/span> Thus, about 62% of individuals (compared to 45% in 2017) and 83% of businesses (compared to 61% in 2017) consider any corruption situations unacceptable and declare that they do not accept to offer or receive bribes, regardless of the situation and implied personal benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, both individuals\u00a0(73% of respondents) and companies\u00a0(80% of them)\u00a0are aware that bribery entails punishment of both parties involved, and 87% of them, on average, would report the corruption acts to the anti-corruption agencies in the event of such a situation.<\/p>\n<p>In the opinion of the civil servants participating in the survey, among the main causes of corruption are the<span style=\"color: #993300\"> low salaries in the public sector and the mentality of demanding and giving bribes in money and \/or goods<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The same causes for corruption acts were emphasised by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.md\/2019\/12\/10\/quality-of-anti-corruption-policies-and-working-climate-in-central-public-authorities-survey-of-public-servants\/\">survey<\/a> conducted by <strong>Transparency International (TI) Moldova<\/strong>\u00a0throughout the employees of\u00a013\u00a0central public authorities<strong>. <\/strong>The survey results revealed that\u00a0a quarter (24.6%) of civil servants who work in public institutions, and answered the survey, consider that their workplace is affected by corruption. More details about the survey can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-corruption-phenomenon-perceived-by-moldovan-citizens-a-ti-moldova-study\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the legislation obliges civil servants to report corruption cases and other abuses to the head of the public entity or to the responsible authority, a considerable part of the respondents (about\u00a0<em>27%<\/em>) are openly not willing to do it for reasons of\u00a0personal security and lack of trust in empowered bodies,\u00a0according to the TI-Moldova report.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the main factors that could determine the involvement of citizens in corruption abatement activities are <span style=\"color: #333399\">the confidence that they will be protected if they denounce a public official for corruption acts<\/span>, as well as the<span style=\"color: #333399\"> trust in the independence of the justice<\/span>, showed the Center for Social Studies and Marketing study, as being <a href=\"http:\/\/tv8.md\/2020\/02\/14\/studiu-moldovenii-au-dat-anul-trecut-mita-in-valoare-de-516-milioane-de-lei\/\">reported<\/a> by TV8.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCommitting acts of corruption must become non-profitable. But to drive forward those reforms, independent, effective, and incorruptible leaders of the judiciary and law enforcement bodies are urgently needed,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalvoices.org\/2020\/02\/03\/can-moldova-ever-win-its-gruelling-fight-against-corruption\/\">said\u00a0<\/a>Stanislav Pavlovschi, a Moldovan judge formerly at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), for the<strong> Global Voices<\/strong> portal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Moldova registered a score of 32 points for the Corruption Perception Index for 2019 released by Transparency International, being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/cpi2019?\/news\/feature\/cpi-2019#report\">ranked<\/a>\u00a0<strong>120th<\/strong>\u00a0out of 180 countries. The score for Moldova worsened as compared to the 2018 year, when the country recorded 33 points, whereas improved when confronted to the data from 2017 \u2013 31 points. More details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/figures-a-worsened-corruption-perceptions-index-for-moldova-in-2019\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: freepik.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>When talking about corruption, most of Moldovan citizens blame the &#8216;system&#8217; built by politicians and their political regimes throughout history. And that may be true, but only to some degree. When looking deeper, it can be actually observed that little corruption acts are perceived as a normality by a lot of individuals and legal entities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,56],"tags":[601,115,80,35,27,95,501,103,489,478],"class_list":["post-448015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-reportaje","tag-bribe","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-society","tag-study","tag-survey","tag-transparency-international","tag-undp"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>When talking about corruption, most of Moldovan citizens blame the &#8216;system&#8217; built by politicians and their political regimes throughout history. And that may be true, but only to some degree. When looking deeper, it can be actually observed that little corruption acts are perceived as a normality by a lot of individuals and legal entities in the country. That is what is shown in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/Arhiva\/90005\/Lansarea-studiului-sociologic-privind-evaluarea-impactului-Strategiei-Nationale-de-Integritate-si-Anticoruptie-pentru-anii-2017-2020\">study<\/a> conducted by\u00a0by the <strong>Center for Social Studies and Marketing &#8220;CBS &#8211; Research&#8221;<\/strong>. The study\u00a0assessed the impact of the National Integrity and Anticorruption Strategy for the years 2017-2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0516 million lei<\/strong> &#8211; this is the total amount of bribes offered by Moldovans in 2019. On average,<span style=\"color: #993300\"> a Moldovan citizen has offered at least five bribes, while an enterprise has been involved in about three corruption acts.<\/span>\u00a0Businesses paid bribes worth 197,3 million lei, while individuals offered a total of 319,4 million lei as bribes during the last year, estimated the study. The value of the one illegal payment ranged from 50 to 20 thousand lei.<\/p>\n<p>The research was carried out on the basis of a national survey where 1 120 persons, 506 companies and 606 civil servants from central, district and local public administration participated. The data were presented in comparison to the situation in 2017, when the first such survey was conducted. It\u00a0was carried out within the project <em>&#8220;Fight against corruption by strengthening integrity in the Republic of Moldova&#8221;<\/em>, implemented by UNDP in collaboration with the National Anticorruption Center, and the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The total value of the bribes offered by Moldovans is lower, however, compared to those from two years ago, when the amounts varied between 100 and 500 thousand lei in the case of companies and between 50 lei and 8 thousand lei in the case of individuals, as the study stated.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the study affirmed that corruption remains a serious problem for the Moldovan society, <span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">the level of intolerance of the population towards corruption has increased<\/span>.<\/span> Thus, about 62% of individuals (compared to 45% in 2017) and 83% of businesses (compared to 61% in 2017) consider any corruption situations unacceptable and declare that they do not accept to offer or receive bribes, regardless of the situation and implied personal benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, both individuals\u00a0(73% of respondents) and companies\u00a0(80% of them)\u00a0are aware that bribery entails punishment of both parties involved, and 87% of them, on average, would report the corruption acts to the anti-corruption agencies in the event of such a situation.<\/p>\n<p>In the opinion of the civil servants participating in the survey, among the main causes of corruption are the<span style=\"color: #993300\"> low salaries in the public sector and the mentality of demanding and giving bribes in money and \/or goods<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The same causes for corruption acts were emphasised by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.md\/2019\/12\/10\/quality-of-anti-corruption-policies-and-working-climate-in-central-public-authorities-survey-of-public-servants\/\">survey<\/a> conducted by <strong>Transparency International (TI) Moldova<\/strong>\u00a0throughout the employees of\u00a013\u00a0central public authorities<strong>. <\/strong>The survey results revealed that\u00a0a quarter (24.6%) of civil servants who work in public institutions, and answered the survey, consider that their workplace is affected by corruption. More details about the survey can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-corruption-phenomenon-perceived-by-moldovan-citizens-a-ti-moldova-study\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the legislation obliges civil servants to report corruption cases and other abuses to the head of the public entity or to the responsible authority, a considerable part of the respondents (about\u00a0<em>27%<\/em>) are openly not willing to do it for reasons of\u00a0personal security and lack of trust in empowered bodies,\u00a0according to the TI-Moldova report.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the main factors that could determine the involvement of citizens in corruption abatement activities are <span style=\"color: #333399\">the confidence that they will be protected if they denounce a public official for corruption acts<\/span>, as well as the<span style=\"color: #333399\"> trust in the independence of the justice<\/span>, showed the Center for Social Studies and Marketing study, as being <a href=\"http:\/\/tv8.md\/2020\/02\/14\/studiu-moldovenii-au-dat-anul-trecut-mita-in-valoare-de-516-milioane-de-lei\/\">reported<\/a> by TV8.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCommitting acts of corruption must become non-profitable. But to drive forward those reforms, independent, effective, and incorruptible leaders of the judiciary and law enforcement bodies are urgently needed,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalvoices.org\/2020\/02\/03\/can-moldova-ever-win-its-gruelling-fight-against-corruption\/\">said\u00a0<\/a>Stanislav Pavlovschi, a Moldovan judge formerly at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), for the<strong> Global Voices<\/strong> portal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Moldova registered a score of 32 points for the Corruption Perception Index for 2019 released by Transparency International, being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/cpi2019?\/news\/feature\/cpi-2019#report\">ranked<\/a>\u00a0<strong>120th<\/strong>\u00a0out of 180 countries. The score for Moldova worsened as compared to the 2018 year, when the country recorded 33 points, whereas improved when confronted to the data from 2017 \u2013 31 points. More details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/figures-a-worsened-corruption-perceptions-index-for-moldova-in-2019\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: freepik.com<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/how-corrupt-the-moldovan-citizens-are-comparative-figures\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moldova.org%2Fen%2Fhow-corrupt-the-moldovan-citizens-are-comparative-figures%2F\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><span class=\"heateor_sss_svg\" 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