90% RESPONDENTS OF A POLL BY TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL SPOKE AGAINST TWOFOLD ADVANCE OF SALARY TO ARMENIAN JUDGES
ArmInfo
2008-12-15 15:31:00
ArmInfo. 90% respondents of a poll by Transparency International spoke
against twofold advance of salary of judges in Armenia, Director of the
Transparency International Armenian Office Amalia Kostanyan said today.
She also added corruption risks will not reduce until the people’s
thinking changes. ‘I do not agree that corruption starts from the
lowest levels of the government machine. Employees of the lowest link
often have to take bribes as a strict hierarchy of their distribution
exists. Non-management employees, when talking to me, said: ‘Now
bribery is banned, however, unlike us the management will not suffer
from this as they have business. Therefore, corruption should be viewed
from several points of view, and it is incorrect to blame a priori
only those who physically take bribes’, A. Kostranyan emphasized.
To recall, at one of the latest sessions of the Armenian parliament,
the MPs introduced alterations and amendments to the Law ‘On Salary
of Heads of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of
the Power’, according to which the salary of judges will be twice
increases, which will make it possible to reduce corruption risks.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
