Number of Bribes Paid in the European Union
Transparency International reported that around 20 million bribes are paid out to officials throughout the European Union. 8.1 million bribes were paid out in the medical services industry. The...
View ArticleBribery Cases in Beijing
The Beijing Municipal Procuratorate reported that 58 percent of all cases investigated by prosecutors in Beijing during 2007 to 2012 were bribery cases involving government officials. City prosecutors...
View ArticleCorruption Complaints in Thailand
The Bureau of Policy and Strategy of the National Anti-Corruption Commission in Thailand reported that it received 7,955 complaints of corruption in 2012. The bureau estimates that the number of...
View ArticleIllegal Gambling of European Football Matches
In February 2013, Europol announced that it has discovered an international organized crime syndicate that was match-fixing European Football games. Police discovered that up to 380 matches played...
View ArticleBribe Price for Illegal Logging in Vietnam
A former head of the forest management board in a forest in Vietnam was sentenced to jail for 12 years for allowing loggers to illegally cut down trees and to smuggle the timber out of the forest. The...
View ArticleCost of Corruption in Afghanistan in 2012
According to the United Nations, the cost of corruption in Afghanistan in 2012 was $3.9 Billion. The amount of corruption is 40 percent higher than the 2009 figure. Despite the higher figure, the total...
View ArticleEarnings of a Driver License Broker in Afghanistan
A former police office collects documents and applications for clients in order to help them obtain their drivers license at the traffic department. The man pays government officials between $10 to $20...
View ArticleTrafficking Selling Price in Chile
Human traffickers were bringing illegal immigrants from Haiti into Chile. In the process of smuggling in the immigrants, the traffickers attempted to pay border officials $400 per immigrants in bribes....
View ArticleSmall Bribe Cases in Russia in 2012
The court system in Russia handled about 1,000 cases concerning small bribery cases. The amount in these cases were lower than $330 (10,000 Russian Rubles). According to the Supreme Court Chairman, 60...
View ArticleBreakdown of Bribe for Exports in Kenya
According to a study by the International Trade Center in Kenya, each shipment made by exporters and importers in the country pay up to $5,797 (500,000 Kenyan Schillings) in bribes. Out of that amount,...
View ArticleAmount of Payments Made by Prisoners in Iraq
Corruption within the legal system of Iraq is reported to be rampant in the 10 year anniversary of the US invasion. According to a media report, a prisoner in the Iraqi prison system stated that he had...
View ArticlePrice to Become a Train Attendant in China
The Telegraph in London reported that the bribe price for someone in China to pay in order to get a job as a train attendant within the country’s rail ministry was $14,897 (£10,000). Source: Malcolm...
View ArticleAfrica’s GDP Lost to Corruption
Up to $148 Billion is lost to corruption in Africa each year, according to the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Ghana. The amount lost is around 25 percent of the region’s entire GDP....
View ArticlePercentage Cut for Corrupt Wildlife Ranger
Wildlife traffickers are able to get up to 30 kilograms of ivory from a single elephant. If the market value of the a kilogram is $300, then the ivory from a single elephant would generate up to $9,000...
View ArticleNumber of Investigations of Corruption in the U.S.
On average, the United States Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section investigates around 900 public officials a year. In total, there are around 500,000 elected officials at all levels across...
View ArticleDrug Trafficking by Security Personnel in the Dominican Republic
According to a report by the Associated Press, over 200 military officers, soliders and police offers in the Dominican Republic have been accused of trafficking illegal drugs between 2009 and 2013....
View ArticlePrice To Have Sex with Guard in a Baltimore Jail
According to a federal agents, a prison gang was operating a racket within the Baltimore City Detention Center in the state of Maryland. Documents filed in federal court by the FBI stated that one gram...
View ArticlePrice to Use Cell Phone in Indonesian Prison
Prison guards in Indonesia report that inmates in prison continue to run their drug trafficking operations while incarcerated with the help of corrupt prison guards. The inmates offer guards up to $500...
View ArticleBribery Rate in the United Kingdom
In 2012, one out of 20 people claimed to have paid a bribe during the year to access public services, according to a report by Transparency International. Back in 2010, the bribery rate in the UK was...
View ArticleCost of Corruption in Russian Military
In 2013, the costs of corruption in the Russian military was reported to be $130 Million (4.4 Billion Russian Rubles), according to the Prosecutors General’s Office. The costs of corruption was 450...
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