Investors are forced to live by “concepts”.
Joint report of the Higher school of Economics (HSE) and world Bank (WB) said, according to the newspaper “Kommersant” that the investors decide on the placement of their funds in the Russian economy, fears not so much a bribe as their “spread”, which implies the difference between the amount of “kickbacks” in the center and the periphery. In other words, the prospects of capital investment is completely ruining the “sudden and unpredictable change in rules of corruption at the grassroots level of governance in the regions of the Russian Federation”.
Economists HSE and the world Bank thus identified a contradiction between the real law enforcement and the willingness of entrepreneurs to take investment.
The study observed one, which has already become a symptomatic feature of the behavior of the investor in Russia today. After analyzing the materials on complaints about raiding and the extortion of bribes, the authors of the report conclude: investors do not perceive corruption “predictable and centralized as something negative, and if see what is a serious threat to their own business, as only in corruption, “grassroots and decentralized,” which thrive in the so-called “informal practices”.
How to counter this? It seems that in addition to the duty of spells in the highest offices and demonstration, with the participation of public television stations, killings of thieving governors, other anti-corruption techniques there. The report notes the paucity of ways that government periodically are presented as “effective”. Still, as 30 years ago, various “hot lines” and “panic button” for the victims of the takers. In the same row, said the report was the establishment in June of the electronic mailbox of the General Prosecutor’s office for complaints of entrepreneurs. But while using the contraption box, the number of corrupt officials walking free, apparently, has not diminished.
The average size of bribes in Russia, according to TASS with reference to the head of the main Directorate of economic security and counteraction of corruption (Guebipk) Ministry of internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei, Kurnosenko, equaled in 2015 188 thousand RUB Over the year this figure has grown by 70%. The average amount of commercial bribery, according to the same data, last year was around 203 thousand.
— The variation across regions. I don’t see anything new in this topic, as there are always some regions were more prone to corruption than others, — said a member of Council of Lawyer chamber of Moscow Vadim Klyuvgant. — This was reflected on the frequency of such facts, and the amounts. But the overall picture will not change. In addition, now we have the “aggravation” campaigns initiated by the government, the fight against corruption, the struggle, which is conducted primarily at the regional level. Of course, this can not help but reflect on the realities in the regions, some volatility there because of this may increase. By and large, I don’t see how this study can really help in anti-corruption activities.
“SP”: – is read if the report between the lines, and even corruption in Russia, especially in its hinterland, — living beyond the “rules”? Speaking criminal language, “concepts”? What business people another, shall we say, lack of system only adds complexity in business, including investment activities.
Once the rules in the “shadow” world was considered “Holy”, and their observance was a matter of duty. Failure to comply with “concepts” of the underworld were punished, sometimes by death. But it is not a dogma, and that even the leaders of the criminals retreat.
Second. I understand the concerns of investors, but my fundamental conviction, formed in the period when I was in corporate management and corporate security (and my current practice of a lawyer only confirms this conclusion: it should not, for his own health, to participate (directly or indirectly) in the corruption relationship. Any way and anywhere. And then there is no need to fret over calculating some sort of “rules”, patterns, and other things. Non-participation in this a hundred times more profitable for the businessman, than the involvement in these processes. I’m not talking about the numerous risks associated with them, up to the complete, total destruction or seizure of business corruption forces.
— Today, in a country that is creeping deeper into crisis, changing many of the mechanisms are not paper, but real management, and corruption schemes have become, unfortunately, as a systemic factor, which determines this control in the economy, says leading researcher of the Institute of sociology, candidate of economic Sciences Leonty Byzov. Because the system of “kickbacks” and the account of interests of different stakeholders, it is, in fact, was built. As shown, no “kickbacks”, many of the processes we do not go, thus is arranged system.
Crisis, in turn, changed the scale of financial transactions, including those associated with “kickbacks”. Changed position of law enforcement agencies which, on the one hand, began to catch the big and small bosses for what had not been caught. And on the other they will hardly be able to make before the onslaught of corruption, as the system cannot be eliminated with any penalties; it is necessary to change more fundamental things, not limited to handcuffs for those “caught”. Therefore, these phenomena represent a form of adaptation. The preceding 15 years, the current crisis has shown that among the investors was an adaptation to the existing order. In some areas it was positive, most certainly negative; but please note, in all cases it is characterized by predictability.
Today, this predictability is gone. Themselves and current investors did not know what to expect from their potential investments. Signals they began to act unusual, often contradicting each other. This explains the huge drop in investments, the “investment pit” in Russia, generated over the past two years — which they say all the economists.
