Brazil is the loser in the corruption Index

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Brazil is the loser in the corruption Index

In some countries, the situation improves, in many remains bribery is a Problem: As assessed in Transparency International, 2015. The balance sheet for Europe is mixed, a South American state crashes.

The former Brazilian Minister José Dirceu was 2015 in the Wake of the Petrobras scandal arrested

More than six billion people live in countries with a serious corruption Problem: On the urgency of the issue makes Transparency International (TI) is no doubt. In the corruption Index is in capital letters to this sentence about the image of a girl in a pile of old plastic bottles sitting. The Nine-year-old live in Bangladesh, explains the organization at the beginning of your this year’s report. There sort of the girl bottles, instead of going to school. Child labour is banned in the country, but remain “sad reality, where people are trapped in poverty and that corrupt officials will be paid,” it says.

Bangladesh is 139. in the Index, a total of 167 States listed. On the TI-rating scale received the Southeast Asian country just a few points, 25 out of 100 maximum possible. In the past few years, there were hardly more in Bangladesh moves a little, is the in Berlin more than 20 years ago founded the non-governmental organisation.

Germany is once again among the top ten

On the other hand in Germany, again, among the ten top-Rated ones after it in the last year on the 12. Rank had landed. At the top remains Denmark, followed by Finland and Sweden. Of the Non-Europeans, only new Zealand, Singapore and Canada under the ten best. At the end of the scale rank as of 2014, North Korea and Somalia. Just above them are Afghanistan and the Sudan.

“Corruption can be defeated if we work together,” said the Transpareny-Chairman José Ugaz. The Index is based on estimates of corruption in the public sector, experts from international institutions and research groups to be submitted.

Biggest problems in countries with armed conflict

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Most has worsened year-on-year the rating of Brazil, where a corruption scandal to the state Erdölkonzern Petrobras made headlines. The South American country fell by five points to place 76. In Europe, according to the NGO, the situation in Hungary, Spain, Macedonia and Turkey deteriorated significantly. Clearly improved compared to the previous year, among other things, the Czech Republic, Rwanda (plus 5 points), the Netherlands, Austria, Jordan, and Namibia (plus 4).

Particularly plagued by corruption according to Transparency often countries with armed conflicts. In Afghanistan, for example, be in aid to millions of dollars, the reconstruction of the country should serve, has been stolen. This is undermining the efforts to find a peaceful solution. The “devastating conflicts” in countries such as Iraq, Libya or Sudan prevented a strengthening of the state institutions.

bor/sc (dpa, afp, rtr)