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How to report a corruption within your environment?

The corruption is a financial crime that may occur everywhere including the both – private and public
sector. The people who would raise awareness about these incidents are called whistleblowers and if
they continue giving their effort to the case – they may become the reliable sources of information.
Through this effort, we intend to discuss how the corruption may work in a practice and how the case
involving a source of reliable and highly accurate information may get proceeded through the investigative
process.

What is a corruption and why it matters?
The corruption is so common financial crime and may appear everywhere where people
adopted the bad habits. Some societies got a quite high level of corruption, while the others
practically deal with no corruption at all. How it works in a practice? It’s a quite good question
and we would try to illustrate through some examples how people deal with this sort of
criminality. First, it’s well-known that people appreciate something valuable and to get so – they
would get ready to make many favors and advantages misusing their position, reputation or
influence. For instance, if you offer to a corrupted police officer some money, he would not issue
you a charge. Similarly, if you gift your doctor, he would provide you the better treatment in the
hospital. Also, if your parents pay to your teacher, you would get the better marks even if you do
not deserve them at all.

There are heaps of examples that may illustrate you how it works in the societies with the high
level of corruption and the fact is this is something that you would face on nearly every single
day if you live in such a country. Some people would not get ready to stay silent and blind to
these occurrences and they would get a bravery to talk about these issues. They may try to
alarm the authorities about these situations for the reason they cannot take the injustice within
their society. They would simply believe it’s unfair that someone would get privileged if he got
money to pay for a favor – even if we all are equal in front of the law. Those guys simply called
the whistleblowers would report through e-mail, phone, post or in person about the cases
including the corruption. If the authorities decide to open the investigation – they would try to
involve these guys offering them the status of source who may regularly or ad hoc send the
information about this sort of crime.

We are aware of that many people from a developed world cannot imagine how it works in the
developing countries and why the corruption may get such a serious social concern. For
instance, myself as someone who comes from the developing country such as Serbia could talk
about many of these cases. So commonly, even the media would support the people who would
talk openly about the corruption and even sacrifice their employments and peaceful lives to
prove that this bad social phenomenon exists in this part of the world. Those people deserve the
protection from the entire country and, unfortunately, the experience would suggest that the
entire society may get so cruel about their effort to make a change and prove something
inappropriate would be happening in their community. We would strongly recommend to
everyone being interested into this topic to think about the possible models, procedures and
scenarios of handling and supporting this fighters to the better world.
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