Study of the Impact of Effective Inspection of the Administrative Corruption on the Islamic Republic of Iran's Customs Organization

Based on the Transparency International (TI)'s 2008 report on the administration corruption in the world out of 180 countries studied by this body Iran, with the score of 2.3, stands 141st. For this study the worst and the best scores fluctuates between respectively 1 and 10; score 1 for the most corrupted administrative system and 10 for the least corrupted administrative system. According to the same report, as compared with the year of 2007 in which Iran stood 131th out of 179 states, with the score of 2.5 Iran's standing has demoted remarkably in the current year. One of the most significant threats exposed to the administrative system is the administrative corruption. Until now different definitions have been introduced for the administrative corruption each one, as its part, has been effective in shedding more light on this heinous phenomenon. But the administrative corruption, at first has been of an ethical and value connotation which gradually lost its ethical aspect having come out as a concept with a certain definition used in the public management and political sciences fields. The administrative corruption which is the opposite of the health in the administrative system, based on the TI definition, implies misuse of the public power for the private administrative benefits for the purpose of personal or family interests. In the present study we bring three factors or organizational categories to our attention namely supervision and control, salary and wages as well as process of activities of the customs trying to examine their impact on the occurrence of the administrative corruption.