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Gertrud Levit, writing for the Baltic Business News, discusses the failure of government in Tallinn to deal with international corruption. This is somewhat surprising given that Estonia regularly scores at the top of the Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) among communist states.
Levit, quoting a report on Estonia by the TI, says:
In 2006 and 2007 not a single case of international bribery was looked into in Estonia…[and the country] doesn’t even have laws to fight international bribery.
Some of the measures to counter corruption recommended by the TI are that Estonia should…
…define the terms foreign official, giving a bribe, and enterprise liability better, once the appropriate changes to the Penal Code have reached the parliament.
[...] is a similar problem experienced by Estonia, which was recently criticized for not having prosecuted a single case of international bribery in the past two years (2006, [...]