A judge’s appointment in Albania can come with a price tag in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and this might not be the scariest part. In a judiciary where bargaining for favors among judges is part of the decision-making process, corruption no longer originates mainly from outside the system but also within its legal institutions.
Reporter Sami Neza explains more in his story “Albanian Judiciary and the Rule of Bargaining for Favors.” The story is the first in the series The Corruption Notebooks, part of the newly released Global Integrity Report 2010.
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