Croatia Loses Six Billion Kuna Annually through Corruption
Zagreb, June 12 (CP) – The Croatian economy loses about six billion kuna annually due to corruption.
The head of the anti-corruption agency USKOK Dinko Cvitan called on all state institutions and not only the police to report on corruption within their ranks even when they have not valid evidence, but only suspect corruption.
The president of the national council for the monitoring of corruption curbing has stated that the problem on the world scale amounted to up to 1, 500 billion annually, while some six billion kuna was Croatia’s share.
The Justice Minister Ana Lovrin has stated that Croatia had done a lot in the fight against corruption saying that the next step was the drawing up of a strategy aimed at quashing corruption, which should be presented to MPs next week.
The European Commission has described the Croatian repressive framework aimed at fighting corruption as well set up with tried corruption cases growing by 34 percent in 2007 compared to 2006.
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