About corruption within the public-private partnership

• Author: Alexandrina Augusta Bora
• Position: Alexandru Ioan Cuza Police Academy
• Pages: 19-26

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ABOUT CORRUPTION WITHIN THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE

PARTNERSHIP

Candidate to PhD Alexandrina-Augusta Bora

„Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Police Academy

augustabora@yahoo.com

Abstract:

The domains in which there is a risk for corruption acts are diverse, even if

we talk about clear objectives, with clear tasks, as the ones established for

Romania’s adhesion to Schengen space. In the same manner, the corruption

phenomena can take place at any level.

The manner of prevention and combating of corruption depends on the

stage of this phenomenon within a certain environment. As it emerges from the

explanation attempts in this paper, the corruption develops in relation with the

business and economic environment, furthermore, at the interference of the public

and private environment, within the domains in which the public decisions affect

the activity of the private agents from the economic point of view. Besides the

large number of laws that refer to corruption, there have been created institutions

with the purpose of fighting against this phenomenon.

In spite of the ancient history of corruption and of the presence of this

phenomenon in every society, it has been said that a definition of corruption could

never have the same level of acceptance in all countries.

The active corruption within the private sector1 has been treated, during the

last century by the civil law (for example within the law regarding the

competition), by the merchant law or by general dispositions of the criminal law.

The incrimination of the private corruption has emerged as a necessary and

innovative effort to avoid all the gaps of a global strategy of fighting against

corruption.

Keywords: corruption, public sector, private sector, national legislation,

lobby.

The roots of corruption can not be known in time, as this phenomenon has

been mentioned since Ancient Greece, where the bribery was so frequently met that

Platon proposed death punishment for the civil servants who receive gifts for doing

1 Idem note 4, p.38.