Interior Minister calls for clampdown on corruption

Minister of the Interior Martin Pecina says the caretaker government should come up with a package of anti-corruption measures. Mr Pecina said measures that could be tabled include an offer of immunity or lower sentences for state witnesses in corruption cases and the use of agent provacateurs to help uncover corruption. Corruption is still a major problem according to a report by the team of government economic advisers, NERV. It pointed out recently that state engineering and infrastructure contracts are far more expensive that in West European countries because corruption was built into the construction price.