Left-wing NGO Publishes Its Discredited Corruption “Perception” Index
February 12, 2025
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On Tuesday morning, Transparency International published its corruption index for last year, which shows that Hungary is more corrupt than Burkina Faso, reports Mandiner. Several government actors reacted to the report, pointing out that the research by Transparency, which is funded by George Soros, cannot be called unbiased.
According to the report, the world’s least corrupt countries include Denmark, Finland, Singapore, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland. The most corrupt states include Venezuela, Somalia and South Sudan, with Hungary being the most corrupt state in the European Union. As Transparency wrote, even Burkina Faso in Africa is less corrupt than Hungary. Communist Cuba, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago and South Africa are also in a tie for the corruption ranking.
In January, Nézőpont Institute argued that Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index was discredited. The institute’s head, Ágoston Sámuel Mráz, said Transparency’s analyses are a regular reference for the media and, through them, for economic and political decisions aimed at discrediting and often punishing Hungary.
Among others, the failed US government cited TI’s corruption index to justify sanctions against a Hungarian minister,”
he pointed out.
The Corruption Index has nothing to do with the level of corruption, said Ágoston Sámuel Mráz, adding that it is not a public opinion poll, but a ranking based on the opinion of a few carefully selected experts, who are either unknown or exclusively critical of the government and biased. He also highlighted that countries that support Transparency are high on the corruption index ranking. Finally, he pointed out that Hungary is the seventh least corrupt of the 27 EU member states, according to the official European Union survey, the Eurobarometer ranking.
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Reacting to the corruption index, the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty said: “This year again, the political pressure group Transparency International has published its annual so-called Corruption Perception Index.
The index, which is produced using manipulative methodologies, is a classic disinformation tool capable of influencing the international perception of countries.”
The Office for the Protection of Sovereignty has found that Transparency International Hungary is part of a global pressure network that has been operating for more than thirty years and is engaged in political pressure activities in the interests of the great powers behind it.
The investigation report found that the organization is more than 80 percent foreign-funded, with its main donors being the European Commission, USAID and George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. The Office for the Protection of Sovereignty also stressed that, in its view,
the Corruption Perception Index is merely a pressure tool, its authors want to influence the image of Hungary in a negative direction, to narrow Hungary’s economic and political space and to destabilize its democratically elected government.”
Zoltán Kovács, State Secretary for International Relations, pointed in a post on X that the index was “bankrolled” by George Soros and USAID, and is actually nothing more than a political weapon to smear opponents of the liberal order.
What a joke, @anticorruption!
Once again, you prove that your sanctimonious “Corruption Perception Index”—bankrolled by @georgesoros and #USAID shadow money—is nothing more than a political weapon to smear opponents of the liberal order.
Nézőpont Intézet has revealed that… pic.twitter.com/EDpA6ew8iW
— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) February 11, 2025
The politician wrote that the “real corruption is that a Soros-funded, USAID-backed organization fabricates ‘perceptions’ to undermine sovereign governments that refuse to submit to their agenda—buying narratives instead of fighting corruption.”
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Via Mandiner, Featured photo via Facebook/Transparenc International Magyarország
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