ANTI-CORRUPTION prosecutors are between a rock and a hard place" said Panama President Juan Carlos Navarro  at the opening of the 17^th  global conference on transparency which opened in Panama this week.

Varela said one of the problems is the enormous wage gap between those who prosecute corruption and those who help to enable it.

"For me it is unacceptable that at both ends people are attacking the prosecutors," he said.

"One side wants them to do more, and the other wants to oppose them."

His call was echoed by Iosé Ugaz, president of Transparency International (TI),  who said that people around the world are  calling for “more transparency and less corruption."

"We know that corruption kills, it affects health, generates malnutrition, denies education and. access to safe drinking water and decent housing.

“While those who generate corruption have a glamorous life," said Ugaz, who also called for more support for prosecutors.