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Thursday, March 31, 2011

India ranked 84th in corruption index

India ranked 84th in corruption index


India is still perceived as a highly corrupt country, with the index of Transparency International Corruption Perceptions (IPC) 2009 classification of the country in 84 of the 180 respondents. No significant difference was standing before India in the 85th position last year.

The score for the integrity of India, an important component of the survey, stood at 3.4 the highest score of 10, indicating that the country has a long way to go in terms of eradication corruption is concerned. However, the good news is that the score of the integrity of India is the second highest among all countries of South Asia. Bhutan, with a score of 5, fared better on the parameter of the integrity of all countries of South Asia.

The top three countries with the highest CPI score and rank are New Zealand, followed by Denmark and Sweden. A country with a higher score is considered less corrupt.

Classification of India has been calculated by collecting data from 13 sources. All sources measure the overall extent of corruption to measure the frequency and size of bribes in the public and political. The survey does not take into account corruption in the private sector.

India ranked 72 in 2007. However, the scandal of "cash for vote in 2008 led the country to position 85 in the same year. The perception of corruption among politicians and public service officers still exist and has continued to affect India's rank in the index in 2009.

"It is a commonly perceived notion that politicians are spending too much on elections and corruption prevails. India's performance this year is not flattering one and only one can solace in the fact that there has been worse than last year, "Transparency International India Chairman RH Tahliani said.

Out of the departments studied, the rates of India's worst police department in terms of corruption, while school education was the sector where less corruption prevails. The Bihar state is most corrupt, followed by Jammu and Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh.

Thousands Protest Government Corruption in India

NEW DELHI: Thousands of people marched Sunday through various cities in India to protest against government corruption and the demand for effective law against corruption, reported the Hindustan Times.

Waving placards reading "Corruption: Enough is enough" and "ordinary people are raped in government offices," the protesters gathered in demonstrations in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and other cities.


The demonstrations, which coincided with the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi, was part of the "India against Corruption" social movement that requires the approval of the bill Lokpal. The legislation aims to create an independent anti-corruption agency, authorized, transparent and accountable.

"The Lokpal bill prepared by the public is so effective that will eradicate corruption in the next two or three years. The political parties should support the passage of this bill Lokpal as suggested by the government is just a masterpiece" said the eminent lawyer Shanti Bhushan, whereas in the demonstration in New Delhi.

The government wants to Lokpal an advisory body only recommended the government to prosecute the corrupt ministers.

Public anger has grown throughout India following a series of high profile scandals, including the sale at reduced prices of mobile phone licenses and allegations of corruption relating to the Commonwealth Games 2010.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Can We Imagine A Corruption Free India?

There is no doubt that India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and the recent turmoil in the global economy helped India to demonstrate its stability. The situation is good but could have been better.

Do we realize that the biggest heist in our development is the widespread corruption in our country? From a pawn to a pacemaker, they are all corrupt. The system is rotten to the core and what more could one say when the detectives of the department to combat corruption are caught accepting bribes. I was taught in my class of sixth-grade geography of India is a country extremely rich in natural resources. Not many countries in this world that has such huge reserves of natural wealth, whether the amount of fertile land for cultivation or fossil fuel reserves, India has everything. Being a sixth grader, I did not know the difference between geography and economics, as only the teaching of geography at that time was nowhere and Economics in the image, not told that these resources that India has not been used in the right way.

Today I realize that the only reason they are behind the economies that are poorer than us in terms of natural resources etc. UK, France, Germany, Japan is that they are corrupt. Some may argue that the population and unemployment are the major constraints in the development of India. It is a myth created by politicians to eclipse his failures. renowned economists around the world have been of the opinion that India is able to feed its growing population, provided that resources are used appropriately. Employment opportunities can be created if politicians decide to use all the resources that India has.

INDIA: An apology does not wipe out corruption



Despite the slow enforcement of corruption in India, the last two cases of assault on human rights and the right to information activists in the country reiterates its concern that the fight against corruption in India committed suicide. Of the two incidents, one is reported other Jharkhand and Rajasthan. In Jharkhand, criminals abducted Mr. Niyamat Ansari, a defender of human rights and the right to information activists working in the Latehar district from his home in the village of Jerusalem on March 2, he brutally assaulted about an hour and left for dead. Ansari, but was transferred to Latehar Sadar Hospital, died in hospital the same day. In Rajasthan, on March 3, human rights and right to information activist Mangalaram Mr suffered serious injuries when a gang of robbers attacked him with axes and sticks. One of the attackers tried to shoot his gun Mangalaram, which was prevented by the present.

The incident, reported two separate and distant states of India only reiterates the fact that fighting corruption is a deadly business in the country. The two victims are human rights defenders who work the provisions of the Law on Right to Information in 2005 for denouncing corruption, particularly in the implementation of social welfare schemes implemented under the National Rural Employment Mahatma Gandhi Guarantee Act, 2005, a law created to provide guaranteed employment for the poor of the country.

What is alarming however is that the two incidents are not isolated and are the latest representations of how people benefit from the fight against corruption back to the public who report fraud in India. For example, at least six activists right to information activists were killed and 11 seriously assaulted in the state of Maharashtra, only in the last 14 months. Of the injured, Mr. Arun Sawant who was attacked in February 2010 for exposing business fraud lands within the jurisdiction of Badalapur council is permanently paralyzed from his injuries. Similar incidents of brutal attack on the activists who try to expose public corruption has been widely reported across the country. However, these incidents have resulted in only isolated responses of the authorities, the statement by the Chief Information Commissioner Hussain Janat of Andhra Pradesh, which called for immediate action by central and state governments to stop attacks activists of the right to information and other human rights defenders.

To conceive of the governments of the Union or the government could do something to prevent such attacks, however, is difficult. The Government of the Union has contributed to the deplorable environment of the lack of transparency in the country for the appointment of Mr. PJThomas as the Central Vigilance Commissioner in Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). The top bureaucrat leaving office, once the Supreme Court of India decided in a case brought against the government that the appointment of Mr. Thomas as Commissioner was unfounded and that a person suspected of being involved in corruption against which proceedings are pending in the Court of Special Judge for offenses punishable under the Prevention of Corruption of 1988 in the state of Kerala, where Mr. Thomas served in several senior positions, including that of the state chief secretary. The CVC is the highest body of government with a mandate to fight corruption in India.

CVC's fiasco is further evidence that the fact that the functioning of public institutions in the country is severely affected by corruption. Even the Supreme Court of India is no exception to this. Again and again senior judges and lawyers have repeatedly said the country's judiciary is not free of corruption. The latest suspect is the former Chief Justice of India who is currently serving as President of the National Human Rights Commission, Justice KG Balakrishnan. The government, despite the fact that is important and incriminating Balakrishnan, has failed to carry out a thorough investigation of the case. A public interest litigation filed before the Supreme Court is pending against the government, in which the Court has already expressed dissatisfaction over the slow pace of investigation into allegations against former judge. In addition to the former judge, former Union minister also faces corruption probe. However, another alleged fraudster, Mr. Hasan Ali Khan, is also facing investigations for corruption and financial fraud, which in its course is to expose the link between Khan's ill-gotten wealth and political and bureaucratic elite in Maharashtra.

Abnormalities in the assembly of two cases, those involving some of the most influential people in the country and that they include petty contractors suspected behind the assault of the right to information activists, is that Although the amounts involved in cases involving former judge, the minister and MrKhan is amazing, amounting to millions of people, where the poor human rights and the right to information activists have been assaulted or killed in acts of corruption is less of relatively small amounts of money. Although the scenario exposes corruption at both ends, it probably is corruption in the lower level directly affecting the poor. Can also be argued that corruption, both serve each other and now in India, no serious attempt to stop it.

Even the media is no exception to this. The recent news about some of the scribes former self-proclaimed 'celebrity' in the country's participation in "fixing agreement" demonstrates scams. In the midst of all, Prime Minister of India has expressed his apology in Parliament on his office's error in referring Mr. Thomas at the head of the CVC.

Admit a mistake, however, will not solve the problem facing the country today. What is needed is a concentrated action by the government and all other stakeholders, including civil society and the general public to address the corruption that has eaten all the pillars of the country's democratic framework.

There are several examples around the world where governments have given strong measures against corruption effectively and to society have maintained a satisfactory immune to corruption then. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in Hong Kong is a very successful example in the region. Unlike India, Hong Kong has no right to information. However, the country is able to control corruption so much so that today, offering a bribe person is considered an insult to the integrity of the person and, often immediately informed the authorities.

This was possible only by the Hong Kong ICAC has the full support of the administration to carry out its mandate and as an organization that was built, maintained and equipped to meet what is expected to do. Not surprisingly, one of the prime objectives of the ICAC was the police force of Hong Kong. This was not because there are no other agencies in Hong Kong were corrupt at the time, but was an action on the basis of a clear understanding that unless the surveillance system is freed from the clutches of corruption, anti- corruption would be impossible and therefore a financial sense.

In addition, the ICAC did not have police officers on secondment to the ICAC. What you see on the successful model of Hong Kong are three main features: (1) The ICAC has a separate mandate to investigate corruption and the administration supports, (2) The ICAC is made of staff with impeccable records, selected trained and equipped to do their job, and (3) There was no local police officers served in the ICAC, a rule of the institution continues even today.

Since the establishment of the ICAC, corruption in Hong Kong not only drastically reduced, but also pushed forward economically Hong Kong, which today is considered the territory as a security business center in Asia. The ICAC model for success has been replicated in other larger countries such as Australia and studied by experts working for governments that are serious about eliminating corruption.

In India, however, prevention of corruption is a nasty pill for the government. While the appointments as Mr. Thomas is done for the main charges, police officers are often assigned to work for the agencies to prevent corruption. Officers who work for these agencies lack training and equipment. Despite India's software design experts and sophisticated technology for the rest of the world, most are not used in the country, still today a review of a good fingerprint or DNA analysis will take years, if not decades to be completed and these instruments are often available for agencies implementing the law in many parts of the country.

Although the justice system, despite having reduced to a crude joke as an inept institution shackles delays, judges and prosecutors unable to poor, the country is yet to devote much attention to this institution. It is neither a dream nor general plan by the government to address brutal violence committed by law enforcement across the country with almost absolute impunity. The bill against torture, proposed by the government in 2010, says a lot about how little the government is interested in the discipline of the country's police. Serious visible defects that affect the country's justice institutions, could have almost no motivation for the public to react against corruption. On the contrary, corruption becomes a lubricant to make a broken and demoralized to work, for those who can afford to let the system work.

The result of this neglect is very visible in the country and it is clear to the public, that those who benefit from this chaotic environment are created intentionally by politicians, officials rich, dishonest government including the police and the corrupt elements in the country's judiciary.

In the turmoil of this half-rotten, the prime minister's apology in parliament is not just for members of the legislature, but the entire nation. If no further actions to follow, this apology will go down the drain as but one more attempt to mislead the country, which mean nothing and do something to change the status quo unacceptable.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

India and Pakistan clash: ad rates to break all records



Nothing can be bigger than an India-Pakistan game to knock the World Cup. Therefore, it is not surprising that rates of advertisement for the live broadcast of the game has broken all records.

Sources told NDTV that the types of land for ten seconds of advertising has increased six-fold to Rs. 18 lakh. Fees for league matches were sold at Rs. 3.5-4 lakh per ten seconds. The previous record was spot rates of Rs. 14-15 lakh (for ten seconds) during the IPL final in 2009.

So far, all computer games in India have attracted higher rates. Spot rates for the quarter in India and Australia was Rs. 12.10 lakh (for ten seconds), while for the Spain-England match was Rs. 7 lakh (ten per second).

Advertising rates in situ for the final match is expected to be sold at a huge R. 24 lakhs (ten per second).

The mother of all parties concerned not only rates announcement, but ticket prices have soared on the black market as well. A Rs. Rs 250 ticket exaggerated. 2000, while R. 500 entries were Rs. 4000. A Rs. 1,000 tickets sold for as high as Rs. 6.500 to 7.000.

City police move against the black market tickets

The city police have completed a draft decree to prevent tickets being sold on the black market of major events taking place in different parts of the city, including international cricket matches.


The decision comes following the recent violence that occurred when a large number of cricket fans packed the stadium to buy tickets for the Spain-England match and the subsequent arrests of some people for the crime of selling tickets in the market black.

It was alleged that a fraction of the total tickets sold through the counters.
The draft decree has been titled as the Regulation of Sale of tickets or passes for admission to public places of entertainment (Bangalore City) Order 2011.

Shall apply to all places of public amusement and public entertainment programs conducted within the limits of the Commissionerate of Police, Bangalore City, said Police Commissioner Shankar M Bidari City.

The draft decree requires the organizers to ensure at least 50 percent of tickets sold over the counter. If tickets to an event are sold or issued through the Internet, should not exceed 50 percent of the cast.

The absence of a rule to prevent black market selling tickets or passes for entertainment programs including cricket matches and music shows has given rise to the black market the tickets and the unavailability of tickets for members of the public and has also given scope of adverse events affecting public order.

Therefore, it is considered necessary in the interest of maintaining public order and peace and prevention of adverse events, framing an order to prevent arbitrary and illegal sale of tickets and black market tickets programs organized in places of public entertainment, said Bidari.

Objections and suggestions should be sent to the Legal Counsel of the Office of the Commissioner of Police, No. 1, Infantry Road, Bangalore - 560 001 either by mail or in person, said the Commissioner.

A Ticket for 250 Rupees to 25,000 Rupees



Chandigarh: The fact that a ticket at a price of Rs 250 is sold for 25,000 rupees in the black market has been confirmed.

UT police crime branch on Saturday arrested a resident of Sector-46, Naresh Garg, in the act by selling two tickets to the World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan, which costs Rs 250 for Rs 50,000. The defendant has a department store and two tickets Burail, along with 50,000 rupees in cash were recovered from their possession.

Inspector Amanjot Singh, in charge of the crime branch, said a trap was laid after a tip. A policeman was sent plainclothes Garg as a decoy customer. He said the accused was being interrogated to determine how many tickets had been sold and bought. Police sources said that Garg had confessed that he had bought the tickets from the Central Bank of India, a few days ago.

A case under Section 420 (cheating) of IPC was registered in police station Sector-34. The accused was produced in the district courts of Sector-17 on Sunday.

Roaring Trade in the Black Market World Cup Tickets



Premadasa Stadium, a three-wheel stand doubles as a ticket office for the current World Cup. Sri Lanka Cricket has insisted that the tickets are sold out for all parties, however, the tuk-tuk drivers are selling an unlimited number of notes of 50 rupees at an inflated price. The Sunday Leader ticket investigated by the three-wheel drivers in Maligawatta.
We stopped at a set of three wheels and asked where they could buy tickets to the quarter-final between Sri Lanka and England held yesterday. After some hesitation in which appeared the pilots were "watching us" Sarath, (a tuk driver) admitted that we could get tickets for the match. He said that tickets will give us entry into the Rs. 50 stands and would cost R. 2.500 per ticket. When asked in the seat that he was told he had only small bills "C" which is the site of the foot.
Saying he wanted to buy a ticket Sarath told us to wait 10 minutes while she went to collect the ticket. Before he left he could follow in his tuk-tuk. Leaving us standing on the side of the road. During our wait speaking to other drivers who explained that they had stood in line four hours to buy tickets. They added that many people could not buy tickets in a few hours just after the opening of ticket sales, the authorities of Sri Lanka Cricket announced that tickets were sold out. The pilots thought they were doing a service by selling illegal tickets. To get a massive benefit. In each of Rs. 50 bills that were making a profit of Rs. 2450. Assuming that sold a thousand tickets have brought a profit of over Rs. 2 million.

Meanwhile, Sarath returned with our tickets and told me to follow him down a narrow alley. It was here that completed the transaction, giving me the ticket, while the collection of Rs. 2500. All the while looking over his shoulder to make sure it had not followed or taken a photo. When asked where he got the tickets, Sarath said only that he had waited in line and bought them.
He, along with his colleagues seemed to have in hand an unlimited number of tickets on sale.

The Sunday Leader returned the next day. This time, we find that tickets worth Rs. 500 for Block 'A', is, also were being sold by the three-wheel drivers. Approaching a separate three-wheel stand asked if I had tickets for sale. A driver presented on this occasion as Sajan, explained that they had Rs. 500 tickets available and are sold at Rs. 3000. When told he wanted to buy 20 tickets that I was asked to return at 2 pm to collect the tickets. When asked how he was able to get these tickets, explained that he bought in November. When asked if he was limited to the purchase of only four innings, said he went with some friends and buy tickets together. There were dozens of people in power.

And as the fans desperately tried desperately through any means to buy tickets to see their heroes in the game resorted to buying on the black market. Brisk sales Maligawatte abounded as ticket prices vary from Rs.1, 500 to Rs.9, 000 depending on the sidelines.

Sugath Senanayake, a bank employee, told The Sunday Leader, which had bought three tickets originally priced at Rs. Rs 500. 4.000 each. He explained that when he tried to buy tickets in December had said they were exhausted. He said he had tried then to buy Rs. 50 tickets that had been released a week before the game. Again he was told that were sold. "I tried twice but was unsuccessful despite trying well in advance," said a frustrated Sugath adding, "I offered these tickets and opted to buy them."
When asked where he got the tickets from said that they were sold to him by a colleague that he had purchased with every intention to re-sell at black market that was never interested in attending the game.

Rehan Samarasinghe, a local student, explained that he lost the tickets for the last quarter, as it had not been duly announced that tickets had gone on sale for the match. "I did not know that the tickets were sold until a friend asked if I had I have mine, but when I went to the Cricket Board said they sold me. You can not blame people for buying tickets in black market is the only way to get them. "When asked if he knew where I could buy said that the three-wheel drivers are local suppliers.

Three held for black marketing tickets match between India and Pakistan

Chandigarh: Chandigarh police Sunday arrested three men for attempting to black market tickets for the India-Pakistan cricket semifinal World Cup in Mohali May 30, police said here.

Rohit Sharma Hemant Kumar Singh and Jasmeet, aged 18-20 years, were trying to sell the tickets at a premium in the Information Technology (IT) park area.

"There were two bills of Rs.250 (face value) each and a ticket for 500 rupees. They sold three tickets for Rs.56, 000. We have detained and questioned is," said a police official.

On Saturday night, a black-marketer, owner of a department store, was arrested in the village of Burail here. He was selling the ticket Rs.250 to Rs.25, 000, police said.

Acting on a warning that a merchant in the village was selling tickets in black, the police laid a trap and sent a decoy customer to the store Saturday night.

An agreement was reached Rs.50, 000 for two tickets for Rs.250 each.

"We found Naresh Garg red-handed accepting the money. He said he bought tickets for March 21 from the main branch of the Central Bank of India. We're going to produce in court," said Inspector Amanjot Singh IANS.

Fever World Cup has reached its highest point here, with a Rs.15, 000 tickets for the party that allegedly sold more than Rs. 100,000 in the black market.

India and Pakistan played under floodlights on Wednesday at the Stadium of Punjab Cricket Association in the city of Mohali Punjab, about 10 km from here.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Political corruption

Political corruption is the use of powers to legislate by government officials for illegitimate private gain. The misuse of government power for other purposes, like repression of political opponents and general police brutality is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by individuals or companies not directly involved with the government. An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties.

Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, cronyism, bribery and embezzlement. While corruption may facilitate criminal activity such as drug trafficking, money laundering and human trafficking is not limited to these activities.

The activities that constitute illegal corruption differ depending on the country or jurisdiction. For example, certain political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another. In some cases, government officials have broad or poorly defined powers, which makes it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal. Worldwide, bribery alone is estimated to involve over U.S. $ 1 trillion year. [1] The state of rampant political corruption is known as a kleptocracy, literally "rule by thieves."

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Corrupt India, ranks 87 out of 178 countries

India falls into the range index 87 in Transparency International's Corruption Perception 2010 due to alleged irregularities during the recent Commonwealth Games.

In the context of alleged irregularities in the recently held Commonwealth Games (CWG), India's perception of corruption levels have increased with a corresponding deterioration in their rankings. According to the Index of Corruption Perception Transparency International (CPI) for the year 2010, the year India ranks 87 among 178 countries, down three points from 84 in 2009.

Countries with the highest scores in the index are seen as having less corruption, countries with the lowest scores, the majority.

Worse, there has been a decrease in the score of the integrity of India to 3.3 in 2010, 3.4 in 2008 and 2009, and 3.5 in 2007. These figures are on a scale of zero to 10 with the first is perceived as highly corrupt and 10 indicating low levels of corruption.

"It's an indication that the country is still perceived as more corrupt than in the past. This perception appears to have increased mainly due to alleged corrupt practices, as is evident during the recent Commonwealth Games in New Delhi," the report CPI for 2010 states.

"The surveys and assessments used to compile the index to include issues relating to bribery of public officials, kickbacks in public procurement, embezzlement of public funds, and questions that probe the strength and effectiveness of public sector, the fight against corruption, "says a statement accompanying the 2010 IPC.

"It is unfortunate that India has fallen in the index of corruption, even in terms of score integrity," said PS Bawa, president of Transparency International India. "The solution to this problem lies with the legislature and government."

The Commonwealth Games, held in the country in early October, was marred by allegations of corruption, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) that form a "special cell" composed of senior officials to investigate allegations of corruption in the projects of GTC. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has also created a commission headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General VK Shunglu, to investigate the conduct of the games.
Transparency International - a global non-governmental organization that monitors political and corporate corruption worldwide - has been publishing an annual CPI since 1995.

The CPI ranks countries / territories based on their degree of public sector corruption in a country is perceived, and is a composite index made from a combination of surveys.

Apart from the public sector, the CPI focuses on corruption of public officials, public officials and politicians.

The CPI 2010 is based on 13 surveys of origin of ten independent institutions like the World Bank, Freedom House and the Global Competitiveness Report, among others. These sources, which provide a classification of countries and to measure some aspects of corruption, the range between January 2009 and September 2010.

According to the CPI 2010, Somalia is considered the most corrupt country in the world with a score of 1.1, followed by Myanmar and Afghanistan, Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore are perceived as the least corrupt with scores of 9.3.

China is set to 78 °, indicating that it is less corrupt than India. Pakistan appears as if only a little worse than India. U.S. ranks quite high in the 22 and is perceived to have relatively low levels of corruption. In Asia, Bhutan is seen as the least corrupt country.

Rounding out the top scores ten: Finland and Sweden, 9.2; Canada, 8.9, Netherlands 8.8, Australia and Switzerland, 8.7, Norway 8.6. Japan was 17 on the list with a score of 7.8, the United Kingdom 20 (7.6), and the United States 22 (7.1).

In the bottom of 178 countries, Somalia received 1.1, just below Afghanistan and Myanmar (1.4) and Iraq (1.5). Among the emerging economic powers, Brazil was 69th on the list with a score of 3.7, the 78th China (3.5), and 87 in India (3.3).

In general, Transparency International survey says: "These results indicate a serious corruption problem. With governments commit huge sums to meet the world's most pressing problems, the instability of financial markets to climate change and poverty, corruption remains an obstacle to much needed progress. "

New Corruption Age

tenfold in the last two years we have seen or bigger scams in India to outdo each other. 2G recent scam is linked to 176,000 million rupees. That's 1,760,000,000,000 worth nearly Rs 3% of our GDP. Satyam scam was about 14,000 million rupees, while scam Common Wealth Games is 70,000 crore. I was talking to some young people the other day and told them that in the 1990 PV Narasimha Rao was involved in a scam of 2 million rupees. They could not believe that a small amount of 2 million rupees could actually result in a scam. Even the much talked about Bofors scam, because Rajiv Gandhi lost power in 1980, only 64 million rupees. So what happened to us as a nation in the last twenty years? How do we get only Rs 2 million to 176,000 million rupees?

I think we're seeing a whole new set of rules that are being played on the corrupted India (By the way, India proudly ranks 87 in world corruption index). And unlike what many think, I think the younger generation is not the old generation, which is to establish the new rules. Is corruption in New Era, which is very different from the old school. The appetite of the old school was small, and therefore was pleased with the money of small and stored as cash stuffed in pillows or gold deposited in some foreign accounts. The new era is rapacious, who wants to become the world's richest, seize all the country's vital natural resources and the money trail through legal methods, such as IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, to convert his black money into white money.

Discuss this corruption of the New Era through the following three trends.



1. India is creating more wealth

India is creating more wealth than ever before. Is the creation of wealth beyond the means and mechanisms of how our managers and politicians are used to fund management. India is making money on an unprecedented level due to the reforms that have set in early 1990 by Manmohan Singh in the PV Narasimha Rao. That has led to employers, businesses, industries, financial institutions, the creation of mega wealth for this nation. The treasure chests are filled with a lot of money, but our leaders and bureaucrats are unable to use those funds to better use. They lack the vision and it is showing clearly.

Some of the ministers, babus, administrators are not accustomed to handling this kind of money. Most states return the funds received to the schemes of different unused. Most social plans to return the unused money from the center. At this time, India allocate as much money to various projects that most leaders who are given the mandate to pass this is not in a position to spend wisely.

Old habits die hard. Politicians and bureaucrats continue to steal money. At first he stole less, but every year, bureaucrats are setting new and higher goals for their politicians, ready to prepare the necessary documentation, which increases the amount of money allocated to an exponential rate. The network is expanding. More number of people receiving the portion of cake. If the former minister was 5,000 million rupees, which would like to have 15,000 million rupees for the new minister.

Old school reacts one way, the old way, filling their pockets, the pockets of his family, his friends' pockets. But they do so random that no matter what they do, over time shows. You just can not fill their pockets with money again which is very broad. It's too much money to get into the pockets. Shibu Soren of Jharkhand, Bihar Lalu Yadav and others are examples.

In this vacuum of visionaries and leaders, we new set of leaders, more intelligent. Smart because they know how to steal the money without having to fill their pockets.

2. Scammers are getting smarter

New age corruption plays by different rules now. New Age corrupt not only in cash in suitcases, to take a stake in his company, a percentage in the new company, put their investments in a fictitious company, and so on. Use the new liberalization policies to make corruption a mega level, a level that no politician of the old school could have imagined.

For example, besides the liberalization of the economy of India has liberalized laws allowing people to get the raw ore from India. That alone has created a set of new industries in which the children of the entrepreneurship policy, obtain the necessary permits to mine and sell the ore to foreign companies. The Chinese take satellite images and say "children," our politicians Hey, we want this hill and this hill, do not do any pre-processing, does not believe any industry, just sent the hill, as it is " . Our new employer Age even has the same dynamite explosions Chinese hills to loosen the soil, and then hired local people to come and take land by trucks. These trucks and then go to the nearest port where a Chinese ship is waiting to devour the hill. These ships to take ore to China, creating a mega industry, provide employment for its people, believed that the metal, and then export the metal to other countries, including India.

India is witnessing a curious phenomenon. It would have been funny if it was happening in a show of magic. There is a hill today, the hill is tomorrow. Hills are just being gobbled up and sent to foreign countries. And there is no sustainable industry is being created in India because of this. When Nehru and Tata steel plants installed, created towns like Jamshedpur and Bhilai. Today, natural resources do not create the industry or municipalities. Only fattens politicians as they are able to buy whole electorate and the whole of the MLAs. India's politicians and their children must have looted this country of its natural mineral in the last ten years as British sacked in 200 years. We are setting a record completely different here.

Politicians in the New Era that their children before allowing them to enter industrial policy. As industrialists, these children use their father's connections to usurp the resources, take the land, improve systems, and then go to convert black money black money through bogus purchases, depreciation, etc. At the moment the child is ready for politics, he knows how to use government funds and plans to mega wealth for himself. Real estate, construction, energy, mining, are some of the areas where new corrupt age have mastered.

3. Being corrupt has become a virtue

The old school looked at the money out of guilt. The older generation was guilty when they made too much money. This is where the new era differs radically from the old school. The old corrupt new use as a badge to display as an Olympic medal. They are apprehensive about it. In fact, participate in the display of their ill-gotten wealth, that waste, the purchase of new toys, palaces, spending money on birthday bashes.

The competition is not between the corrupt and the most honest, the competition is between the corrupt themselves, to surpass others, to deceive others, stand on each other, coming up with various tricks and methods to circumvent the system. The winner is the one most able contender intelligently each other who wanted to take this money.

Young age is again quite well with making money through programs such as Harshad Mehta or Telgi. They think that there is nothing wrong with making money that way. I like how Akshay Kumar says Hera Pheri 'main banaunga yu paise, shortcut tarikey yes, youth is ready to use shortcuts to make money.

In a country, which confuses the habits of values, corruption is not a bad thing, provided they continue to visit Tirupati every year, put your feet in the Sai Baba, and avoid meat and alcohol in public. It is considered virtuous based on your eating habits.

The combination of these three trends, India is making money on an unprecedented level, the politicians of the new era and their children are smarter and have found ways to usurp the wealth with mega appetite, that the new generation is completely fine to cheat to win money, are some of the reasons why we see the great current scams. What we have seen is just the tip of the iceberg. We're just seeing scams where scammers were only ineffective and dumb. There are so many scams that are not exposed because the scammers are not very smart. There is a good likelihood that fraud will not be exposed.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

India Telecom Scam: How can a corrupt system to clean?

Even in a nation that has always used repetition through the high-level corruption, the numbers reported in the telecom scam called 2G is amazing. In 2008, the Union Government of India licensed use of spectrum in nine companies to provide mobile telephony services in 122 circles. The amount raised was around Rs. 1.658 million rupees (around U.S. $ 370 million). The Comptroller and Auditor General of India estimates, based on spectrum auction for 3G services, what happened later, that the Indian treasury was defrauded to the tune of Rs. 176,000 crore (around U.S. $ 40 billion) in the sale of 2G spectrum.

It was alleged that A. Raja, former minister in charge of telecommunications licenses awarded arbitrarily in a very transparent process, and prices did not reflect the real value of the spectrum. Appropriate prices for much lower teledensity of 2001 (compared to 2008) were accused of giving licenses to favored companies - some of whom do not even have experience in telecommunications - in a "first come, first served only through competitive bidding.

Despite the alleged malpractice immediately after the sale in 2008, it was only in November this year, Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, Raja forced to resign. The position of Minister of Telecommunications became untenable after the Supreme Court intervened, and several potentially damaging phone records involving a lobbyist for high power and leading journalists filtered. In addition to forcing the resignation, telecommunications fraud has tarnished the Prime Minister's office as well.

The Cost of Corruption
The telecommunications infrastructure of an economy is the equivalent of the nervous system of an organism. Without a robust telecommunications system, affordable, efficient and reliable, no economy can prosper in what is called the "information age." Corruption in the licensing of spectrum can be expected to damage the deployment and use of telecommunications infrastructure. Telecommunications are important links back and forth with all other sectors of the economy. The economic cost of India may well be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Corruption has become, unfortunately, a feature that covers everything from India. The Indians are very familiar with it. For citizens to address all levels of government, the systematic abuse of power has lost its ability to download or even evoke a comment. Most people accept corruption as a fact of life. What really is disturbing is corruption in the public sector. The telecommunications fraud is a terrible example of public sector corruption, Transparency International (TI) is defined as "the abuse of entrusted power for private gain."
The magnitude of telecommunications fraud is enormous but not unique. In resource-rich states, scams involving mining rights in major cities, which often deal with real estate. The details vary but the underlying story is the same.
Only in recent months, the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi were marred by allegations of massive financial corruption worth billions of dollars. Another case of grand corruption, which recently came to light - called Adarsh Housing Society scam - politicians involved, defense contractors and top brass. These financial malfeasance are nothing new. Washington, DC-based Global Financial Integrity report, drivers and dynamics of illicit financial flows from India: 1948-2008, published this month in which estimates the present value of all illicit flows of India is at least $ U.S. 462 billion, an amount that is twice the current debt of U.S. foreign India $ 230 million.
True Stories

To explain how deeply corruption has permeated Indian society, let me tell some stories I've heard from friends and business partners. It is only when you hear these true stories that you realize how our system is flawed.
• A large company won a contract for a waste management project in a global offering. Soon, they received a call from a political party asking for money. The company paid for fear that their work is interrupted. Then, a second political party demanded more money. Once again, paid. When a senior leader of a third political party called up, the company had had enough and refused to give in then received a letter from a government ministry stating that the project was on hold. The CEO was to meet with the senior leader and was abused and said that unless the company paid, the project will not happen.
• The real estate prices in all major metropolitan areas in India have gone through the roof. Rates of up to Rs. 100,000 (U.S. $ 2,200) per square foot in South Mumbai are not uncommon. They reflect the well known fact that real estate is one of the main avenues of politicians to generate funds. About one-third the cost of land and construction is attributed to the bribes paid to the political system - from the municipal corporation officials, all the way to the highest offices of government.
• The other day a friend in the construction industry told me about the escalation of costs and time in your business. At each stage I had to pay people who had the power to delay and disrupt operations. Among the dozens of officials with whom he had the misfortune to interact in a hotel project ended, he found that just one was honest. Even now, my friend has to have cash on hand to pay "the inspectors." Projects typically have twice as much time and money than could reasonably be expected.
The problem of corruption is eroding confidence. Limit welfare improving trades that are so important to the economic efficiency of any system, capitalist or socialist. It also leads to inefficient resource allocation. The spectrum of telecommunications fraud for selling is a clear example. As it happens, some of the companies that obtained licenses cheaply turned a nice profit by reselling the spectrum. For price manipulation of the spectrum, the value that should have accrued to the Treasury, which could have been used for public projects, instead ended up as higher than normal profits for companies. The economy of India is not lost only in terms of direct revenue from the licensing of spectrum, but also by the effects of the high costs of telecommunications services (as a result of the final purchaser of spectrum to pay more high). Corruption is in effect an unlawful tax that enriches individuals and acts as a brake on economic growth.
It is instructive to examine the causes of corruption so staggering scale. The reasons are certainly structural. When the government exercises too much discretionary control over the allocation of resources, it is tempting for bureaucrats and politicians to gain from the concomitants of power. The minister of telecommunications had significant discretion over who acquired spectrum, and when and by how much. Apparently, it uses this power to the detriment of the country.
The criminals in power

The opportunity to accumulate great wealth offered by the political power is the main driver for people with the desire nor the ability or the government to go to enormous lengths to enter politics. Over time, this leads to erosion of public morality and ethics. The results of assembly elections in Bihar recently illustrate this reality. In the assembly of 243 members of legislative Bihar, 141 newly elected members have criminal cases pending against them. The charges include murder, kidnapping and robbery.
It should be shocking that people who are responsible for making laws are very likely to be broken. There has been a clear decline in standards of what is acceptable behavior. That voters actually elect the criminals to the legislative bodies must be the most shameful aspect of Indian democracy. The trend is not all positive, it seems that now even the media is involved in dark transactions that were once limited to some politicians and corporations. It also appears that the cancer of corruption may have spread to the courts.
In the final analysis, the prevalence level of public probity and integrity is a function of the social demand for them. In a democracy, the people ultimately decide who will govern. The solution to the problem of corruption of public officials is absolutely to the public. The kind of leaders and policy makers that people demand ultimately determine who will make the rules by which society functions.
India is a democracy. In the words of Abraham Lincoln, the country has a "government of the people, for the people and for the people. "But the Indians have to understand that most of the diseases in India are a result of his abdication of responsibility that necessarily accompanies the Indians have rights in a democratic system. Democracy is not just about voting voting but not reported. The people must act together against those who have brought disgrace and shame for the country. They have a responsibility to clean up corruption. This can be done most effectively by refusing to vote for criminals.
The news is not all bad. Citizen groups are emerging that aim to solve the problem of corruption. This is a collective problem can be solved only through the mobilization of voters informed. Among many others, a nascent group of such, called "Unite the voters of India," is an association of people who agree to vote only for candidates who are capable and clean.
Our problems must be solved within the system through the democratic process. The good news is that advances in information technology and telecommunications have changed the balance of power of government to the people. People now have the means to educate and organize collectively to force reform in the system. The telecommunications scam should serve as a warning to all Indians that it is time to act. If so, maybe the scam have served a positive purpose, after all.

India Telecom minister quits over corruption allegations

The opposition in India has been demanding the resignation of Raja for several months, but things came to a head after a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) was leaked to local media.

The report states that the minister could have caused big losses to the exchequer of the country by allocating spectrum licenses at low prices including nine operators, according to reports in the media.

Raja, who belongs to the DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) party, a coalition partner in the federal government, resigned on Sunday night. He told reporters that he had not broken any laws, and to prove it. He had resigned to avoid embarrassment to the federal government, he said.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said last year that has registered cases against some officials of the country's Department of Telecommunications (DOT), private sector companies and some individuals in connection with alleged irregularities related with the licensing of telecommunications by the DOT.

The CBI did not name the individuals or companies who have been charged under the country's Prevention of Corruption Act.

The Department of Transportation decided that licenses are allocated on a first-come, first served "at a low rate current form in 2001, against the advice of the local telecoms regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) CBI said.

The Transportation Department's decision to put a limit on the number of licenses per service area, and the decision to stop accepting new applications even before the last date fixed has also been criticized.

The CBI said that putting a limit on the number of licenses has been a criminal conspiracy among some DOT officials and some private companies and individuals for granting certificates to select companies.

The CBI was harshly criticized by the Supreme Court of India last month for the delay in conducting investigations.

Several of the licensees, said it has benefited from the alleged irregular awarding spectrum licenses and later went on to sell their shares in service industries to foreign investors as Telenor, at prices well above the amount paid by owners license for the spectrum, according to opposition parties in India.

In the case of 3G licenses, the government auctioned the licenses and spectrum. Tata Teleservices has already started the deployment of services, Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile service provider, which is expected to start rolling before the end of the year

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Corruption, corporate battles scare away foreign investors?




Place in India has captured the imagination of the world, while the economy grows at nearly 9 percent a year and a growing class of consumers buy cell phones, cars and houses. No wonder that foreign companies are increasingly eager to capitalize on that growth by investing here.

Or are they? Despite India's impressive growth, companies and foreign investors have begun to look elsewhere. Foreign direct investment in India fell by over 31 percent, to $ 24 billion in 2010, even as investors flocked to the developing nations as a group.

And in the past two months, foreign investors took $ 1,400,000,000 india stock market, helping drive the country nifty 50 stock index by 17 percent from highs set in early November.

The decline in foreign investment include outsiders still face challenges in India, two decades after politicians began to open the country to the world. For indigenous leaders, the decline in foreign money may make it harder to achieve faster growth and economic context that they need to create jobs and lift hundreds of millions of 1100 million people in India out of poverty.

While the inefficiency and bureaucracy are not new in India, analysts and executives say that foreign investors have lately been startled by a government corruption scandal much publicity about the licensing of wireless communications. Another reason for hesitation is a corporate tax battle between officials of India and the British company Vodafone now before the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, the inflation rate - 8.2 percent and rising - seems beyond the control of India's central bank, and has done nothing to reassure foreign investors.

Jahangir Aziz, an economist at JPMorgan in Mumbai, said that while politicians in India have been apparent ambivalence towards foreigners, other emerging economies have drawn the red carpet. Recently, foreign direct investment to countries like Thailand, Indonesia and Brazil has soared. Direct investment in Brazil, for example, rose 16 percent, to $ 30.2 million last year, according to the UN.

Still hope

There is no doubt that investors and companies around the world are betting on growth in India. Last year foreign investors poured about $ 30 billion in the Indian stock market - and thus, some profit taking of all time on the market last fall was high, probably expected. And last week BP announced it would buy in oil and gas here for $ 7.2 billion, which would be the largest foreign investment yet in India.

But the broader trend signals that foreign companies and investors are worried about their ability to do business in India.

Aziz and other analysts say the slowdown in foreign currency is part of a wider withdrawal which also includes Indian companies. Private investment as a percentage of gross domestic product of India was reduced to about 22 percent in the fiscal year from 25.6 percent a year earlier. Analysts say companies are more cautious due to problems in obtaining regulatory approvals and uncertainty about the direction of government policy.
So far, the deficit has been developed by higher government spending and personal consumption. But economists note that these, alone, are not ingredients for sustained growth.

And despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, promises, executives fear they will not be able to convince other politicians to make the necessary changes. Ministers of India often circumvent the broader set of Singh, who designed the first major economic reform in India in 1991, when he was finance minister.

She now heads a fractious political coalition. And recent corruption scandals, including allegations that bribes helped undermine poorly organized last year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, have further eroded the credibility of the government.

In private, business executives complain that Indian officials are experts to proclaim their commitment to free markets, but it takes concrete steps to ease restrictions. Doing so is politically difficult in India because many politicians, trade unions and civil society groups prefer government spending and domestic protectionism on economic liberalization.

In the retail sector, for example, the country still bars foreigners to own stores that sell more than one brand of products. This restriction, intended to protect many small retailers in India, preventing Wal-Mart, Tesco and other sales to class in India growing consumer. In recent months, officials of India has sent mixed signals about whether the government intends to facilitate the policy.

In insurance, MetLife, which has invested $ 139 million in a company in India, I would put more money into the country. However, it is restricted by rules that limit foreign ownership in insurance companies to 26 percent - a limit that policy makers established in 1999 with the expectation that they would raise in a few years.

MetLife, which has already reached that limit, can not grow as fast in India, as it can in Brazil, where it owns 100 percent of their members. Even in China, known to favor their domestic companies, MetLife owns 50 percent of its insurance business there.

Concern over tax laws

Foreigners are also increasingly concerned about the tax laws of India. Vodafone, the global telecommunications giant, is struggling with tax officials who want to pay about $ 2.5 billion in capital gains tax on its 11 billion U.S. dollars acquisition of Indian mobile phone company in 2007. The Indian authorities say that Vodafone should have deducted the tax money you paid to Hutchison Whampoa, a Hong Kong company.

Vodafone says that no tax should apply because the transaction took place outside India and that applying the tax to be paid by Hutchison. Analysts say Indian officials are billing Vodafone Hutchison, because it no longer does business in India.

The tax case of Vodafone and other companies with concern that taxes are subject to unexpected when it comes to buying and selling their investments, "said Nandan Nelivigi, a partner at law firm White & Case in New York that advises companies on investing in India.

"Foreigners do not want to avoid paying taxes in India," he said. "But I just want to know what their tax obligations are."

However, some executives say that doubts about the investment climate in India are being exaggerated.

Gunit Chadha, chief of operations in India from Deutsche Bank, said that while he would like politicians to accelerate the pace of reforms, he does not believe that India has become hostile to foreign companies. Despite the recent recession, he said, cash flow remains much higher than as recently as 2004, when India attracted only $ 6 billion in foreign direct investment.

"Sometimes it's a good idea to open the faucet is calibrated so as not to flood the place and then having to turn off the tap erratically or clean up the mess," said Chadha. "You always have a situation in which one could argue that could have done a little more or a little faster, as is the feeling. But in a democracy like India, more slowly is beneficial."
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Police Corruption In India

There is no shortage of fraudsters in India. However, when these people claim to represent the police or intelligence agencies, the consequences of deception can be powerful. It is therefore vital that the State should make concerted efforts to locate and bring these people out of business. As reported by this newspaper, three impostors were arrested in New Delhi after it was discovered that a man paid Rs9mn to secure two letters of appointment to positions in the police department. The man wanted the letters to him and his cousin for the position of assistant superintendent of police. The fake documents carrying the signatures and seals of the top police officials and senior bureaucrats. One of the alleged fraudsters had reportedly claimed that he was the country director of Interpol, and the director of an intelligence agency, had "service cards" of these organizations to prove it. The scam was discovered after the applied victims of the police department, only to say that the appointment letters were false.

The incident highlights the fact that there are black sheep in the departments of government - especially the police - who buy and sell jobs. Rs9mn is an amazing price for two posts of ASP, which indicates the ease with which individuals can rake dishonest once they are hired as policemen. A probe is needed to determine how the suspects seized the stamps and if the seals are authentic. This case also raises a broader view: There is a need for a thorough cleaning of the police department to eliminate individuals that give the force a bad name, either by falling into corruption or complicity with the scammers. The authorities should take strong action against those who abuse their status for personal gain by public officials

Worsening corruption police for hours

The 4 th Amendment to the India says: "The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants topic, but where there is cause probable, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. "

This so-called right of all citizens are supposed to is slowly being cast out of society because of the abuse of power by law enforcement. Note that once held a career in law enforcement, but after repeated incidents I've seen and heard, my decision to change rapidly.

My name is ... .... and studied Criminal Justice for over 3 years with the desire to be a police officer soon. My area of study changed suddenly after my civil rights were violated by Fostoria Police deals. The harassment was so horrible that I had to leave town to avoid additional traffic citations. Now I am preparing to become general manager at a restaurant next year and going to college for business management. This is my story ....

Fostoria, Ohio is a small town south of Toledo and has gone from a city, once in good condition for a city trapped in a campaign of violence, drugs and police corruption. As part of a personal research project, I investigated the police department to enroll in a career during the program. I was surprised when I told an officer "who do not follow any traffic laws ... why should I?". Wait a moment here, now how can anyone enforce a law when you do not follow themselves. Countless times department members participating in the online gaming sites, while on the clock care to protect and serve. Prevaricate and steal a slogan would be more appropriate in this department.

In mid-June I was passing through town with two friends in a squad car began following Fostoria my block by block. I was arrested for failing to signal 100 feet before a red light, but I think I scored well before then. The Officer approached my car and told me to go, I went and locked my doors. He asked why I close my car and my response was "I do not trust police Fostoria going through my car." With the officer was very upset by my answer led me to one side of the road and repeatedly asked if I had drugs in the car. At this point any person having knowledge of the law should know not to answer questions that could prove his guilt, it is a constitutional right against self-incrimination. Drug has never been in my car and never will be, but the pigs were determined to find the contraband, if your job depended on it. So putting on the K9 unit, where the officer reacted the dog in the back of my car was out of my sight. The officer then tried to factor the possibility that the dog had reacted using me. This is very important for anyone involved in a position to respond exactly as I did. He asked me if I saw him do anything for the dog to indicate the presence of drugs. Realizing what he was trying to get answered, "I could not see the dog or the other side of the car." If I would have answered "No", then I agree that the dog detected the drugs in my car.

After another argument between the police and I went with two quotes and my rights violated Fourth Amendment. The next day I contacted several government agencies about the incident, all telling me to file a complaint through the Department. My actions eventually resulted in the Sergent receive written. You may have to pay hundreds of dollars in fines and taking away points on my record, but in my mind stood for what was right, I did, I won.

Police Corruption

Government has used the police to protect the people against theft and other undesirable activities. The police department is designed to serve and help people. However, in recent times there are many problems caused by men to the police because of the pubis to the increase in police corruption. Public men are afraid of the police, since they have the power in their hands and harass people sometimes. There were many occasions that the laity had to surrender to the illegal activities of these men of the police. These uniformed men take the law into their own hands and get people to force anything, they say. They tend to hurt people when they are not forcing them. There are many cases where simple and innocent people are being indicted on charges of many of them without any rhyme or reason. Most of these people are poor and do not have enough money and support to save these men from the police.


A recent incident took place in Orlando, where a young man driving his car at a music club. He was driving his car within the limits, and he had no reason to accelerate the car. He suddenly stopped by two police men, and this young man asked me why I was asked to stop. Once the car stopped he asked for her role as a driver's license, insurance, etc. The young man was all that was required police still were not satisfied and asked if he had any drugs and bombs. This young man was surprised and said that, in turn, follows the police refused to believe and out of the car, and the hand of his hands cuffed. Later this young man came to sit on the edge of the road for no reason. This incident has caused a trauma in your life, and had the fright of his life. There are many such incidents happening in the world and people should express their opinions against them for a better and healthier future.
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Police corruption and the reasons

The dividing line between corrupt and non-corrupt activities, it is quite difficult to define. A police officer who took advantage of his power and authority to obtain personal and organizational benefits can be described as a corrupt police officer.

Corrupt police officials taking bribes, money laundering and illegal transfer of assets seized from illegal activities. There was no corruption, as long as there have been police in the United States. Due to some bad apples, scandals arise, defaming the police. Not just the junior officers are involved in such malpractices, but also senior managers, and those ranked below them are involved in organized corruption.

One of the best examples of police corruption is the Rampart scandal of the 1990's where more than 70 officers were arrested because of police misconduct. The anti-gang unit of the LAPD's Rampart Division is responsible for police misconduct that included the planting of evidence, preparation of the suspects, robbery and drug treatment, data protection, unprovoked gunfire and beatings. In May 2001, according to the testimony of a police officer named Rafael Perez, who confessed his involvement in police corruption, the Rampart investigation involving more than 70 officials for irregularities with 5 completed, seven resigned, and 12 officers were suspended.

There are several causes of police corruption. According to a report, the areas of police work that is subject to management control at least as monitoring of illegal goods or drugs are more prone to corruption. These areas are associated with financial temptations that attract a particular agent.

The best way to reduce corruption among police officers is that the control through various prevention strategies and introduce reforms at all times. This is not easy and that reform must consider the organization as well as the political environment and task. One thing is certain: you can not judge the entire police set because of a few corrupt individuals.