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The CPI showed that two-thirds of the world’s countries scored less than 50/100 in corruption performance levels

The 20th edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) showed that four out of the top five performing countries were in Europe, with Denmark (92 points) topping the international list, followed by New Zealand (91), and then Finland (89), Sweden (87), Norway (86) and Switzerland (86).

Greece scored 43 out of 100 points, rising 3 points from last year’s list. Greece is on the same level of corruption as Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Senegal and Swaziland, that all scored 43 points, coming 69th out of 174 countries as far as corruption is concerned.

The countries that fell the most were China (36), Turkey (45) and Angola (19), that noted drops of 4 or 5 points on the list.

At the bottom of the list were Somalia and North Korea with 8 points.

“The 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that economic growth is undermined and efforts to stop corruption fade when leaders and high level officials abuse power to appropriate public funds for personal gain, said Transparency International Chairman Jose Ugaz. “Corrupt officials smuggle ill-gotten assets into safe havens through offshore companies with absolute impunity. Countries at the bottom need to adopt radical anti-corruption measures in favor of their people. Countries at the top of the index should make sure they don’t export corrupt practices to underdeveloped countries.”

More than two thirds of the 175 countries ont he 2014 Corruption Perception Index score below 50, on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

“Although some of the best performing countries are in Europe, EU states should be concerned about their complicity in corruption around the globe. We know that any effort to stop corruption in one country is undermined as long as corrupt officials are allowed to hide their money in another. That is why the EU must act in the next few weeks to prevent money laundering and clamp down on the secret companies that mask corruption,” said Carl Dolan, Director of the Transparency International EU Liaison Office.

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