The head of the anti-corruption commission has said that the police is the bottleneck in tackling corruption in Slovenia, as he presented a report by the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO).
The report on the fulfillment of ten obligatory recommendations addressed to Slovenia by GRECO back in 2003 states that the special police anti-corruption unit should be restructured to be made more effective in fighting corruption, Drago Kos told the press in Ljubljana on Monday.
According to the report, the competency and responsibility within the police are so complex in Slovenia that they make launching an investigation into corruption extremely difficult.
Kos backed GRECO's assessment by revealing that while 57 cases of suspect corruption were sent to the police in 2005, only 19 of them made it to the prosecution. The number in 2004 stood at 18.
He pointed out that the State Prosecution's report for 2005 also says that corruption cases which would involve planned and organised activities of competent bodies failed to be carried out.
According to Kos, apart from the abolishment of the anti-corruption commission (a move that has been temporarily halted by the Constitutional Court) state authorities have failed to take any measures related to corruption.
"The government has passed some measures that hinder corruption, yet there was no systematic activities in the area," he added.
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