The amount of bribes was the world constant

Rules igry11-07-2007 Total amount of bribes around the world almost unchanged for several years and is about a trillion dollars - that is the World Bank estimates. In Russia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that corruption is increasingly detected in the organs of state power. The total amount of bribes around the world in 2006 is estimated at one trillion dollars. This is stated in the report of the World Bank's Governance Indicators in the world for the years 1996-2006, made public in Washington. World Bank studied the situation in 212 countries on five synthetic indicators relating to governance. Although in the past 10 years average of corruption and good governance has not improved in a press release on the report of the WB representative expressed the hope that the changes will affect the development of countries in the long term. Nevertheless, the global amount of bribes virtually unchanged for several years, and even comparable to the income of the world of crime. So, in 2004 Transparency International report the total amount of bribes valued at the same $ 1 trillion. And according to the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, United Nations, it is half the income of criminal gangs around the world.