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Seychelles has maintained its top ranking for the sub-Saharan African region in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released on Tuesday. The island nation retained the top position in Africa for the 5th consecutive year, and 23rd ranking globally attained in 2022 with 70 points once again.
Seychelles has maintained its top ranking for the sub-Saharan African region in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released on Tuesday. The island nation retained the position for the 5th consecutive year and 23rd ranking globally attained in 2022 with 70 points once again.
Denmark outperformed Finland and took first place with 90 points. Finland and New Zealand are second and third with 87 points each. The CPI report rates the perception of corruption in the public sector using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is clean. Seychelles stayed in 23rd place globally like in 2021 with a score of 70 points. The island state again outperformed major Western democracies like the United States, which did better than last year and climbed to 24th position with a score of 69 points.
The commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Seychelles, (ACCS), May De Silva, said in a press statement that positive action and tireless efforts to root out corruption by the committed staff and the supportive public have been recognised. Seychelles maintains its global position as the 23rd least corrupt country in the world and remains the least corrupt country in Africa.
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She stated that during this reporting period, officials made more arrests for corruption-related offences, charged more suspects, and submitted more cases to the AG’s office for consideration of charges than ever before. With this increase in reporting and anti-corruption activity, the country is expected to be perceived as a more corrupt country than this time last year. The ACCS commissioner added that Seychelles look forward to hosting the Commonwealth Africa Anti-Corruption Heads annual meeting in May this year. Meanwhile, the ACCS currently has two cases before the Supreme Court of Seychelles, namely the ‘missing $50 million’ case, where foreign aid was removed from a government account in 2002, and the mismanagement of loans at the Seychelles Business Finance Agency (SBFA).
