A good part of Albanians still think that they can solve the problems with money. Referring to the data collected by the Fol Center for a period of 9 months, it has resulted that the phenomenon of corruption of state police officers is increasing.
According to the monitoring of the experts of this center, from November of last year until August of this year, 480 proceedings were registered for the criminal offense of corruption.
In most of these cases, it is noticed that the citizens choose to pay a bribe in the form of a monetary value to the traffic police starting from 10 euros or 1 thousand ALL to avoid legal responsibility.
The largest number of corruption cases are made by drivers who violate traffic rules, who want to avoid fines by giving Money.
About 5% of the prosecuted cases have offered amounts from 1000 to 8000 ALL, in order not to be subjected to the obligation to take an alcohol test, not to be punished with a fine mainly for not wearing a seat belt or not to follow the procedures for suspension or revocation of the patent.
Also various citizens who had problems traveling outside Albania, have tried to bribe border police officers with amounts of money from 50 to 100 euros. /abcnews.al


