Corruption

Fighting corruption in Arab Spring countries

One key demand for which people took to the streets in the Arab Spring countries back in 2011 was uprooting corruption.It was hoped that, in that part of the world, a serious attempt to stop all forms of unethical misconduct would have been set up.A simple definition of corruption, according to ‘tranparency.org’, is ‘dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery’. However the scope of such a concept in some parts of the Arab Spring countriesinvolves a wide array of fraudulent behaviour by those in poweras well asin private sector bodies.

Thanks to the Tunisian revolution we knew that ousted Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his family amassed billions from public funds, in Tunisia Dinars as well as USA Dollars and other European currencies. Much of his wealth has been stashed abroad in Switzerland, London, France and Canada.