Corruption in Croatia

In order to qualify as a member of the European Union, Croatia has taken measures to combat corruption. The legal and institutional framework as well as government agencies are addressing the issue of corruption in a much larger scale, and the inter-agency cooperation for corruption prevention has also increased.[1] USKOK has prosecuted 2,000 individuals and achieved a 95% conviction rate (2012), including former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.[2][3]

Political corruption
Concepts
Corruption by country
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America

Several civil servants in the Croatian Privatization Fund, the Zagreb land registry and the Zagreb taxation headquarters, among others, were arrested on charges of bribery. Moreover, several high-profile corruption cases have come to light, including investigations of a former defence minister and a former deputy prime minister.[4]

A 2013 Global Corruption Barometer report of TI shows that 29% of respondents believe that level of corruption increased in Croatia.[5]

Transparency International's 2017 Corruption Perception Index ranks the country 57th place out of 180 countries.[6] This presents a slip in Croatia's ratings compared to previous years.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Transformation Index 2014". The Bertelsmann Foundation. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  2. Kuris, Gabriel (7 August 2015). "The Little Anti-Corruption Agency That Could". Foreign Policy.
  3. Krešić, Hrvoje. "CROATIA: THE PRICE OF CORRUPTION" (PDF). Reuters Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-03. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  4. "Croatia Corruption Profile". Business Anti-Corruption Portal. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  5. e.V., Transparency International. "Croatia 2013 - World's largest opinion survey on corruption - Transparency International". www.transparency.org. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  6. "Corruption Perception Index 2017".
  7. "Croatia and Hungary are 'new face of corruption'". Retrieved 2017-11-16.
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