Ukrainian business representatives claim that corruption in Ukrainian government agencies remained unchanged in 2015. This is evidenced by the results of an anonymous sociological study, "Level of Business Perception of Corruption," conducted by a survey of 2,741 Ukrainian business executives, Novoye Vremya reports, citing Interfax-Ukraine.
"The survey was conducted among Ukrainian business executives in February-March 2015 and was designed to provide a comprehensive picture of the real state of corruption in Ukraine following the Revolution of Dignity. According to the study, 57,2% of respondents believe the corruption situation has remained unchanged over the past six months, 27,7% said it has worsened, and 15,1% noted a worsening of the situation," the report states.
The most corrupt government agencies were reported to be in the Odesa, Zaporizhia, and Khmelnytskyi regions. The lowest levels of corruption were recorded in the Volyn, Zakarpattia, and Poltava regions. In all other regions, business leaders noted a worsening corruption situation.
The study's authors claim that business representatives who encountered corruption over the past six months identified the following government agencies as the most corrupt (though the survey, for some reason, specifically mentions the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the police):
— tax service (25%);
— land resources agency (7,1%);
— Ministry of Internal Affairs + police (for some reason the data is provided separately) (in total 7,2%);
— State Automobile Inspectorate (5,1%);
— customs (4%);
— regional administrations (3,7%);
— prosecutor's office (3,3%);
— sanitary and epidemiological service (2,9%);
— State Registration Service (2,8%);
— courts (2,8%);
— fire service (2,5%);
— medical institutions (1,7%);
— State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate (1,6%);
— city executive committees (1,4%).
The survey was conducted through telephone interviews with randomly selected company executives. The maximum margin of error for the total sample (with a 90% probability) is 1,9%. During the presentation of the study's results, Dmytro Dubilet, Deputy Chairman of the Board of PrivatBank, noted that a similar survey will be conducted every 3-4 months.
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