Corruption Perception Index 2010: Algeria ranks in 105th position out of a total of 178 countries
According to a new assessment report issued Tuesday by “Transparency International”, Algeria ranks in the 105th position on the corruption Perception index for the year 2010, a leap of 6 slots compared with 2009.
- Algeria scored 2.8 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2009.
- The scale runs from 0 (high corruption) to 10 (no corruption).
- Last year, it ranked in the 111th position among 180 countries; the same as Egypt and Djibouti, ahead of Syria but behind Morocco.
- Algeria had scored 3.2 in 2008 and was in 92nd place, ahead of Lebanon but behind Morocco, among 180 countries.
- In 2007, Algeria scored 3.0 and was in 99th place, tied with Lebanon and ahead of Egypt as well as Mauritania, among 180 countries.
- In 2006, Algeria scored 3.1 and was in 84th place, tied with Mauritania, among 163 countries.
- Algeria’s president Abdellaziz Bouteflika created a committee to study and examine how best to stamp out corruption following his election in 1999, and in 2005, after his election to a second five-year term, his government submitted an Anti-Corruption law for passage by both the People’s National Assembly and the Senate in June 2005.
- The Law No. 06-01of 20 February 2006 reinforces existing legislation to comply with the UN Convention against Corruption.
- In early 2005, dozens of customs officials and at least thirty-three judges were dismissed in official campaigns against corruption in Algeria. The “clean hands” campaign also put powerful governors in jail and forbade chief executive officers from leaving the country.
- There was a crackdown on customs authorities in February 2006: one hundred agents were fired, and 530 were being sued for alleged involvement in several corruption affairs.
- Law No. 05-01, Algeria’s first anti-money laundering legislation, was issued on February 6, 2005, and published in the official Gazette of February 9.