There are many examples of people simply not knowing how to distinguish corruption from illegal actions. In addition, citizens often blame the authorities, businessmen and entrepreneurs, and other persons who violate their rights, being outside the field of anti-corruption legislation.
Of course, the anti-corruption service is taking comprehensive measures to increase the legal literacy of the population, to bring to every citizen information on the development of the principle of zero tolerance for manifestations of corruption. Within the framework of the activity, round tables, dialogue platforms, forums and conferences were held, however, not everyone knows how to protect themselves from corruption.
To begin with, what is corruption? Corruption is the illegal use by individuals of their official or official powers and related opportunities in order to obtain or extract, whether in person or through intermediaries, property or non-property benefits and advantages for themselves or third parties, in general, in other words, banal bribery.
So, in the event that you become aware of illegal actions being prepared or committed, violations, abuse of authority by officials, you need to contact the anti-corruption service at the call center number 1424, or the call center 914 - 222.
Many citizens hesitate to report corruption due to unwillingness to disclose their identities and public censure by relatives, etc. However, when reporting this, every citizen must remember that in the process of obtaining information a strict confidentiality regime is respected and that it is important that a person who reports the fact of corruption or otherwise assists in the fight against it is protected by the state.
In addition, a citizen who reports facts of corruption or otherwise assists in the fight against corruption may receive a lump-sum monetary reward; for this, the law provides for special rules for encouraging people who are financed from the republican budget.
Today, remuneration is differentiated, as in most OECD countries. Thus, the reward for reporting a bribe that does not exceed one thousand MCI is:
- on administrative cases of corruption offenses - 30 MCI
- in criminal cases of corruption crimes of minor gravity - 40 MCI;
- in criminal cases of moderate corruption crimes - 50 MCI;
- in criminal cases of serious corruption crimes - 70 MCI;
- in criminal cases of especially grave corruption crimes - 100 MCI.
Moreover, if the amount of the bribe exceeds one thousand MCI, a one-time monetary reward is 10% of the amount of the bribe. The maximum amount of remuneration is 4 thousand MCI.
What conditions of promotion should be observed?
Anti-corruption assistance includes:
- a message about the fact of corruption;
- Submission of information on the whereabouts of the wanted person who committed the corruption offense;
- other assistance that was relevant for the identification, suppression, disclosure and investigation of a corruption offense.
Encouragement is carried out if the information was true, or the assistance helped to solve the crime.
Encouragement is carried out if the information provided by the person was true, or if other assistance in the fight against corruption provided by the person affected the identification, suppression, disclosure and investigation of a corruption offense and the court ruling on imposing administrative penalties, conviction, etc. entered into legal force
If, based on the information of a person, several crimes of varying severity have been identified, a lump-sum payment of money is paid for the most serious of them. In the event that the severity of the same severity, the payment of a one-time monetary reward is carried out once.