Members of Parliament and police top the list of institutions that Fiji people believe are corrupt, according to the Global Corruption Barometer Pacific 2021 report.
The report, released by Transparency International yesterday, stated that 17 per cent of people interviewed believed that “most or all people” in Parliament were corrupt.
The same percentage was recorded for the police.
Senior government leaders received a corruption perception score of 12 per cent of those interviewed, while 11 per cent of people surveyed thought civil servants and companies in Fiji extracting natural resources were corrupt.
The report found that nine per cent of Fiji’s people believed that community leaders were corrupt.
The percentage was 15 per cent for Fiji business executives, with 10 per cent scored for workers in civil society and non-governmental organisations.
Ten per cent of people perceived that military leaders were corrupt while seven per cent said bankers were corrupt.
“In general, individuals within the executive and legislative branches of Government were considered the most corrupt,” the report read.
“The police are also seen as a corruption hotspot in the Pacific.”
The survey polled more than 6000 adults of various age groups and backgrounds from February to March 2021 in the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
