The largest number of corrupt employees work at local authorities and with the police, and the fewest in courts, according to a survey by the Sociology and Social Policy Institute of Budapest’s Corvinus University.
Corruption appears to assume institutionalised proportions and organisations are being set up to serve corruption, it said.
The report, reviewing the period 2001-07, concluded that corruption is not spreading because Hungarians have become more immoral, but because regulations are increasingly complicated and offices have become less and less efficient.
