Infiltration (corruption)

Leakage occurs in legal money or goods transactions if part or even the entire volume of a transaction is used by the recipient without the consent of the sender, contrary to the use or contract.

General

The internationally applicable legal principle Pacta sunt servanda requires the fulfillment of all conditions concluded in a contract . This also includes that the contractual recipient uses the contractual services in accordance with the provisions. If he violates this principle and branches off parts of it for other purposes or leaves his tasks to third parties in breach of contract, these parts percolate. In international business it is generally assumed that cash payments or deliveries of goods are used as intended by the contractual partners. Leakage is the part of transactions that nonetheless disappears illegally and in accordance with the contract in unintended channels and is used improperly. Infiltration is the perspective of the sender of a money or goods transaction, of whose use contrary to the contract or use contrary to the contract he may gain knowledge. Corruption, on the other hand, is the deliberate abuse of a position of trust by the sender.

Transparency International publishes an annual corruption index for all countries, which classifies them between “very clean” and “highly corrupt”. "Very clean" are states in which there is a comparatively low or no infiltration rate and vice versa. The infiltration rate is the percentage of contractual services that are used in violation of the contract. There is a positive correlation between the seepage of cash payments / deliveries of goods and developing countries . Services to western countries are, however, subject to low infiltration. The high correlation is one of the reasons donor countries are reluctant to provide development aid . You have the option of having independent trustees monitor the use of your services on site in accordance with the contract.

Infiltration affects all areas of life

Infiltration is not only noticeable in development aid and loans ; Concrete aid payments also trickle away, for example in the case of AIDS or payments to disaster areas. The Global Fund has determined that over 60% of AIDS aid in Africa trickles away from corrupt officials, which is why Germany suspended its payments to this fund for the time being. A third of the Haiti donations also seep away. Cash payments for road construction in India partially disappeared for building civil servants' homes; 75% of Indians have experience with corruption. Some of the aid for the flood disaster in Pakistan has also been misused. A specially initiated authority regulated the reconstruction. According to the Daily Telegraph, the government diverted the equivalent of 109.3 million euros in aid for other projects in March 2009. Donors must therefore be aware that some of their donations will not be used for the intended purpose, but will be drained away or used for relatively high administrative costs of the aid organizations.

Combat

In June 2005, the G7 countries and Russia tied this to the condition of fighting corruption within the framework of “good governance” as part of an international debt relief . This condition takes into account the donor countries' many years of experience with the corruption-related seepage of development aid and is intended to ensure that the efficiency of the aid is also increased by decreasing seepage rates. Under the heading of “promoting good governance”, financial administrations and national audit offices are advised and the improvement of laws is supported in order to increase transparency and “accountability”, the accountability of the use of funds. In this way, corruption should at least be made more difficult. At the same time, the aim is to ensure that more money is available in the country to combat poverty.