28.06.2010 Bleakest event in May this year is "Can the police eavesdrop without a warrant”, and lightest is"Inspectors and a medical doctor in custody for bribery", these are the results from the last poll Light-Bleak, on the news agency Makfax and the NGO Transparency Zero Corruption.
Bleakest event in May, according to the votes of 14 from 17 editors of print and electronic media are the proposed changes to the law on electronic communications, under which the Ministry of internal affairs will be able to monitor and eavesdrop all the people in the country without a warrant by the court. The opposition has warned that under the law on electronic communications each operator must choose an authorized person who will perform this work. With this the eavesdropping will be de facto legalized, not by law provided for monitoring of the communications but it will expand in the scope and range of unprecedented level.
The three negative votes, the second bleakest event is the argument between the Commission for prevention of corruption and Amdi Bajram, which according to the Commission hasn’t declared all the property that he owns in the Public Revenue Office.
Lightest event in May with 11 votes is "Inspectors and a medical doctor in custody because of bribery”. The Sector for internal control from Skopje to the competent Public Prosecutor's Office filed criminal charges against two inspectors from the Municipality of Gazi Baba and one doctor, head of operational halls of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, former director of the same clinic, who was arrested in the workplace, on suspicion that he had received 120,000 denars bribes to perform surgery.
With three votes, second lightest event during the last month is "Prison for 19 people for electoral corruption, accidents and violations during the elections in 2008”. The highest penalty is four years and 10 months, and this is final and it is referred to the armed incident in Rakovec, when the leadership of the political party DUI, which was present at a campaign rally in the village, was attacked. Six persons were sentenced for three years and one got two years. Three persons received one year in prison and for six months five persons were sentenced. On this list three more suspended sentences and a fine should be added.
“The conference - Corporate business principles and challenges of global corruption” also received three votes and it is the third lightest event in May.
Monthly poll Light-Bleak is organized by the news agency Makfax and Transparency Zero Corruption “from 2004.
In the poll in May top editors of TV stations: A1, Alsat, Nasha TV, Telma TV, Radio Kanal 77, daily newspapers: Vest, Vreme, Dnevnik, Lajm, Nova Makedonija and Utrinski vesnik, as wekk as week magazines Globe, Focus, Forum, Kapital attended.
The three negative votes, the second bleakest event is the argument between the Commission for prevention of corruption and Amdi Bajram, which according to the Commission hasn’t declared all the property that he owns in the Public Revenue Office.
Lightest event in May with 11 votes is "Inspectors and a medical doctor in custody because of bribery”. The Sector for internal control from Skopje to the competent Public Prosecutor's Office filed criminal charges against two inspectors from the Municipality of Gazi Baba and one doctor, head of operational halls of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, former director of the same clinic, who was arrested in the workplace, on suspicion that he had received 120,000 denars bribes to perform surgery.
With three votes, second lightest event during the last month is "Prison for 19 people for electoral corruption, accidents and violations during the elections in 2008”. The highest penalty is four years and 10 months, and this is final and it is referred to the armed incident in Rakovec, when the leadership of the political party DUI, which was present at a campaign rally in the village, was attacked. Six persons were sentenced for three years and one got two years. Three persons received one year in prison and for six months five persons were sentenced. On this list three more suspended sentences and a fine should be added.
“The conference - Corporate business principles and challenges of global corruption” also received three votes and it is the third lightest event in May.
Monthly poll Light-Bleak is organized by the news agency Makfax and Transparency Zero Corruption “from 2004.
In the poll in May top editors of TV stations: A1, Alsat, Nasha TV, Telma TV, Radio Kanal 77, daily newspapers: Vest, Vreme, Dnevnik, Lajm, Nova Makedonija and Utrinski vesnik, as wekk as week magazines Globe, Focus, Forum, Kapital attended.