ABSTRACT
Introduction The phenomenon of corruption has always been present in social life. It has existed in ancient Rome, flourished in the Republic of Florence and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, constituted the basis of centrally steered
communist economies and is still present in today’s global market world.1 For the majority of its history, the fight against corruption was carried out independently by individual states. It was only in the early 1990s that the international community recognised corruption as a global problem, requiring unification and intensification of efforts at the international level. Many international organisations are involved in the fight against corruption, which has resulted in the creation of many recommendations and legally binding documents.2
