BISHKEK (TCA) — In its 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released on January 27, Transparency International ranked 168 countries based on perceived levels of public-sector corruption. The most corrupt countries in Central Asia, according to the index, were Afghanistan (ranked 166th), Turkmenistan (156th), and Uzbekistan (153rd).
Tajikistan was ranked 136th, while Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan were seen as equally corrupt and listed 123rd on the index.”All five countries of Central Asia are…at the bottom of the CPI table,” Svetlana Savitskaya, Transparency International’s regional coordinator for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Europe and Central Asia, told RFE/RL.”[The low score] is a …read more
Source: The Times of Central Asia
