Corruption in Paraguay

President Nicanor Duarte's measures to combat corruption during his 2003-2008 administration included increased penalties for tax evasion and other measures to increase tax revenue, greater oversight of government spending, and a crackdown on the trade of contraband and counterfeit goods.[1]

He also removed members of the Supreme Court after corruption allegations surfaced against them.[1]

On Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perception Index, Paraguay scored a 30 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("highly clean"). When ranked by score, Paraguay ranked number 128 among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked number 1 is perceived to have the most honest public sector.[2][3]

This ranking was an improvement from 2004 when the country was classified among the six most corrupt countries in the world and the second most corrupt in the Western Hemisphere.[1] The opposition, however, has claimed that anti-corruption efforts have not been far-reaching enough because they have not addressed the clientelism that is pervasive in Paraguayan politics or the dominance of the Colorado Party in governmental institutions.[1]

• Crime in Paraguay