Corruption in Ukraine

Average salaries in Ukraine (2013)

Occupation UAH DKK EUR USD

President 20 500,00 13 120,00 1 763,00 2 460,00

Parlament memeber

16 000,00 10 240,00 1 376,00 1 920,00

Judge 13 592,00 8 698,88 1 168,91 1 631,04

Policeman 3 500,00 2 240,00 301,00 420,00

Doctor 2 362,00 1 511,68 203,13 283,44

Teacher 2 730,00 1 747,20 234,78 327,60

Avg. In country 3 619,00 2 316,16 311,23 434,28

http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/results

Corruption Perceptions Index 2013

Rank Country Score 2012 Score

1 Denmark 91 90

12 Germany 78 79

38 Poland 60 58

43 Lithuania 57 54

55 Georgia 49 52

123 Belarus 29 31

127 Russia 28 28

144 Nigeria 25 27

144 Papua New Guinea 25 25

144 Ukraine 25 26

150 Guinea 24 24

175 Somalia 8 8

Areas affected by corruption

● Judicial system● Law enforcement● Government● Health care● Education

It is pretty much everywhere!

Judicial system

● Although judicial independence exist in principle, in practice there is little separation of juridical and political powers. Judges are subjected to pressure by political and business interests. Ukraine's court system is widely regarded as corrupt.

● In 2013, a Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer report showed that 66% of the Ukrainian public considered the judiciary to be the most corrupt institution in the country.

Judge at work video

● http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEjfoG3dUSA @1:10

● http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVr5Z8sLqV4● A judge of a district court works with 6-8

cases/week.● In busy courts a judge processes 536 criminal cases

and 1400 civil cases per ½ year. With such load judges can't pay attention to all cases details.

«Pricelist» of bribes in courtsCase Bribe, USD Bribe, DKK

An «average regular» case 2000 11060

Car accident (depends on amount of killed and their status)

5000 — 20000 27650 — 110600

Petty fraud 1000 — 2000 5530 — 11060

Significant fraud (e.g. In construction business)

from 100K from 553K

Divorce and division of property 2000 — 5000 11060 — 27650

Same for «rich» people 10K — 100K 55K- 553K

Commercial disputes 3-5% from the dispute amount

Not to take into custody10K — 500K 55K — 2,77M

Judges pay too

● Price of a position of judge in province starts from 5000 USD.

● District judge in a bigger city: 50,000-200,000 USD.

● Judge in Commercial court (the most «profitable» position): from 100,000 USD.

Some examples

● Stepson of Dmytro Firtash (Ukrainian oligarch) has killed 2 people in a car accident and is still free http://cenzoriv.net/index.php?name=news&op=readfull&news=2090

Corruption in Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police)

● Policemen are involved into racket: illegal street seller pays each week to «his» policeman: 100 UAH (68 DKK) in case if they sell food, 2000 UAH (1285 DKK) if it's a pusher.

● Place in district police office costs 2,500 — 3,000 USD. Positions of head of region police can cost up to 1M USD.

● Students of MIA universities pay up to 15,000 USD in bribe for their place in university.

Police efficiency

● The declared clearance of crime is 60%, but the real one is about 20% (acc. to Prosecutor General office).

● E.g. From 4500 cases about intentional homicides only 535 has reached courts.

Trust to police

Poland 64% - 75%

Georgia 87,00%

Ukraine 0,80%

Examples

● http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieGoQb4MGxE @1:10, Bribery of road police

Corruption in state procurements

Millau Viaduct (France): the highest road bridge in Europe 343m high (20m higher than Eiffel tower), 2460m long. State of the art in bridge construction. Built in 3 years. Cost: 394M EUR.

Corruption in state procurementsNew Darnytskyi Bridge in Kiev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Darnytskyi_Bridge1100m long20m highBuilt in 9 years

COST: 1 BILLION EUR

Corruption in state procurements

● According to Security Service of Ukraine 50-75% of state procurements were conducted with severe violations and losses from corrupt deals in procurement accounted for 10-15% (35B - 52B UAH, 3B — 4,5B EUR) annually.

● Starting from 2012 Ukrainian state has right to conduct procurement procedures without any disclosure of documents.

● Transparency of state procurements is one of requirements from EU in Association Agreement with Ukraine.

http://pravo.ua/news.php?id=0030739

References● http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/results

● http://index.minfin.com.ua/index/average/

● http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/events/1584934-korrespondent-koroli-dzhunglej-byvshie-sotrudniki-mvd-o-tom-kak-vyglyadit-miliciya-iznutri

● http://pravo.ua/news.php?id=0030739

● http://korrespondent.net/business/financial/1619347-srednyaya-zarplata-v-ukraine-v-sentyabre-umenshilas-na-24

● http://job-sbu.org/zarplata-v-ukraine-ot-dvornika-do-prezidenta.html

● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Ukraine

● http://finance.bigmir.net/budget/38572-Nazvany-summy-vzjatok-v-kievskih-sudah

● http://cripo.com.ua/?sect_id=4&aid=161500

● http://posovesti.com.ua/Article.aspx?ArticleID=230

● http://www.tema.in.ua/article/6330.html

● http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/events/1584934-korrespondent-koroli-dzhunglej-byvshie-sotrudniki-mvd-o-tom-kak-vyglyadit-miliciya-iznutri

● http://censor.net.ua/news/246575/rabotniki_gorotdela_militsii_napisali_pismopriznanie_o_totalnoyi_korruptsii_i_poborah_rukovodstva

● http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/docs/findings/ESS5_toplines_issue_1_trust_in_justice.pdf

● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policja

● http://nikorupciji.org/2013/10/24/koruptsiya-v-derzhavnyh-zakupivlyah-stavyt-pid-zahrozu-asotsiatsiyu-z-es/

● http://frankensstein.livejournal.com/480455.html

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Maternity home

● Corruption starts even before giving the birth● Prices in DKK (Everything from the list is supposed to be for free)

Kyiv Krym Big regional centre

Small regional centre

Registration in maternity home

350-3500 350-2000 200-1500 65-650

Adequate treatment

>700 >700 >700 >350

Analyzes 35-130 35-130 35-130 15-65

Appointment with the doctor

35-130 35-65 35-65 15-65

Childbirth 1500-15000 1000-6500 650-6500 500-3500

Corruption in Pre-schools andSecondary schools

Possible corruption in: Possible corruption in:

Pre-schools Pre-schools

Secondary schools Secondary schools

Putting the child in pre-schools Putting the child in pre-schools

• Putting the child in prestigious schools;• Collect money from parents for school needs;• Overstating a fee payment for students; • Overstating points in a certificate of graduation

• Putting the child in prestigious schools;• Collect money from parents for school needs;• Overstating a fee payment for students; • Overstating points in a certificate of graduation

Kindergartens

Kyiv Krym Big regional centre

Small regional centre

Placement 2000-6000 1000-3500 500-3500 200-1000

Adequate treatment

20-130 20-65 10-35 10-35

Monthly payment

35-150 20-65 20-65 20-65

● Prices in DKK (Everything from the list is supposed to be for free)

Schools

● Prices in DKK (Everything from the list is supposed to be for free)

Kyiv Krym Big regional centre

Small regional centre

Placement 2000-10000 1000-3500 500-3500 200-2000

Adequate treatment

35-130 20-65 20-65 10-35

Monthly payment

35-130 20-65 20-65 20-65

Bribes in education

Corruption in healthcare

● Prices in DKK (Everything from the list is supposed to be for free)

● People are forced to pay

● No payment — no treatment

Kyiv Krym Big regional centre

Small regional centre

Operation 1500-15000 1500-15000 1500-15000 1500-15000

Appointment with the doctor

35-130 35-65 35-65 15-65

Analyzes 35-130 35-65 35-65 15-65

Resistance

http://antac.org.ua

The Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC) is a Ukrainian civil society organization, which unites experts from legal, media and civic-political sectors fighting corruption as a root cause of the key state-building problems in Ukraine.

Resistance

http://yanukovich.info/

A website with materials revealing corruption links between Ukrainian highest officials, their family members and their businesses and assets in Ukraine and EU.

Resistance

● http://skoty.info/● Database that accumulates the

information about persons who violate the human rights. Later can be used for lustration of the officials.

Resistance

● http://roadcontrol.org.ua/

● Road Control - is a non-governmental organization in Ukraine advocating human rights. Road Control was founded in Kyiv (Ukraine) in 2008 as a reflection to increasing level of self-willing among many road police officers in Ukraine. Thus, the main goal of Road Control is to eliminate the corruption, criminal and other types of Ukrainian road police misconduct activities against car-drivers and pedestrians in Ukraine.

Sources

● http://yanukovich.info/● http://tyzhden.ua/Infographics/81912● http://tyzhden.ua/Infographics/88716● http://nashigroshi.org/● http://roadcontrol.org.ua/● http://skoty.info/