Brazil is up two places in the Corruption Perceptions Index by 2022, according to a Transparency International report released this Tuesday that accuses former President Jair Bolsonaro of creating “the biggest institutionalized corruption scheme” ever.
In this year’s edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), prepared by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Transparency International, Brazil achieved the same 38 points as in 2021 on a scale of zero to 100.
According to that NGO, Jair Bolsonaro’s term (2019-2023) was “marked by the dismantling of anti-corruption structures that took decades”.
Transparency International believes that the Bolsonaro administration has created “the largest institutionalized corruption scheme ever known in Brazil, known as the ‘hidden budget'”.
with this schedule billions of reais served to favor political allies, with dire consequences for health, education and infrastructure policies.” highlights.
According to the report, “the combination of corruption, authoritarianism and economic downturn” proved to be “particularly volatile” in the country.
Transparency International is considered a country to monitor in 2023, highlighting that the current Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and his Workers’ Party “have not yet presented a concrete plan to fight corruption for the future, nor defined how they will corruption will be cured”. autonomy of key institutions, such as the prosecutor’s office, the federal police and environmental agencies”.
Brazil’s trend over the past five years has translated into an increase of three points, but given the last ten years, it has lost five.
Founded in 1995 by Transparency International, the CPI has since become a reference in the analysis of the phenomenon of corruption, based on the perception of experts and business leaders about the levels of corruption in the public sector.
It is a composite index, that is, it is the result of the combination of corruption analysis resources developed by other independent organizations, and ranks 180 countries and territories from zero (perceived as highly corrupt) to 100 points (highly transparent) .
In 2012, the organization revised the methodology used to build the index so that scores can be compared from one year to the next.
Source: DN
