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Another comment regarding this: "In a country like France, corruption is not uncommon at that level, goes mostly undiscovered and is rarely prosecuted. " My b
by baud147258 9y ago
Another comment regarding this:
"In a country like France, corruption is not uncommon at that level, goes mostly undiscovered and is rarely prosecuted. "
My brother is working in a construction bussiness in France and he has a handfull of stories of this type of high-level corruption (house built for the ex-mayor, refection work done for a lawyer, invitations to Roland-Garros...). But as the author have said, it's the same thing everywhere.
- kakwa_ 9y agoNot to mention that we have the former president Nicolas Sarkozy on trial for corruption right now. He just took a few millions from Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2008 campaign. And there were a slew of big international military contracts in the 80ies/90ies which were subverted to finance political campaigns (Taiwanese frigates, Agosta contract with Pakistan). These scandals tend to be judged long after the facts (10 to 20 years), and the verdict is generally underwhelming to say the least.
- baud147258 9y agoI've said high-level to contrast to street-level when you slip a bank note to avoid a fine or go first in the queue, but his stories do not implicate that level of corruption, at most local politicians.