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Expert: Large-Scale, Hidden, Systemic Corruption Is Typical For Belarus

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Expert: Large-Scale, Hidden, Systemic Corruption Is Typical For Belarus

During the years of Lukashenka's rule, a whole kraken of state corruption has grown up.

Belarus has allegedly "improved" its characteristics on the corruption perception index. But not because the authorities have defeated it, but because they reliably concealed it, the Belsat report states.

At the mundane level, Belarusians usually do not give bribes to police officers or, for example, doctors, as in neighboring Ukraine or Russia, the head of the project Price of the Government, Uladzimir Kavalkin, notes. But the situation is completely different at the highest level.

"Large, hidden, systemic corruption of top officials during the distribution of budgetary funds, public procurement, privatization, land allocation is typical for Belarus. In these cases, corruption is quite high in Belarus, it is systemic and it is hidden," – Kavalkin says.

Last year, IPM Research Center experts surveyed businesspersons and found out that the most corrupt officials are engaged in sanitary and fire surveillance, state orders and tenders and various certifications.

Corruption is not evenly distributed in the Belarusian regions. The experts call Slonim the most corrupt region. Recently, the trend is this: corruption is distributed at two levels. In the higher echelons of power, and at the level of local executive committees.

Another thing to which observers pay attention: taking into account official salaries and the fact that

in a few years bribery will be forgiven, officials choose to earn quickly, spend a few years behind bars and return to the managerial position, such as, for example, the director of a weak agricultural enterprise. This is the Belarusian variant of the primary accumulation of capital.

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