>Now i am starting to think all the great efforts were in vain This doesn't make any sense. The difference here vs a lawless dictatorial country isn't that hum

>Now i am starting to think all the great efforts were in vain This doesn't make any sense. The difference here vs a lawless dictatorial country isn't that humans are magically all perfect angels in developed countries, but what you're seeing here: investigation by society and people caring, able to talk about it, able to research, able to muster political will around it, able to change all of government in response. This sort of case of massive abuse and criminality by very powerful figures should be rare, but when it does happen there are still fallbacks. There is still a free press that can dig into it and report on it and apply pressure doggedly for years. There are separations of powers that make it more challenging for any one entity to suppress everything. In the UK they did a full TV miniseries around this, lots of articles in major papers, there is an ongoing podcast, vs sending the first journalist to ask questions to prison. There are still regular changes of government at the vote of the population, and in turn incentive for different groups of politicians and new generations of them to gain power by digging into malfeasance of existing ones. There can still be public inquiries long after the fact. The entire point of all the various checks and balances and defense is precisely to try to, eventually, steer things back onto the right track when, not if, they start to veer off. Humans are humans the world over. The slower, louder, argumentative processes of democracy and law are our so far best effort to try to corral that reality. Of course it would be better if such things just never happened at all, but getting from A to B has always been the challenge. Noisy popping of pus is gross but much better then letting it fester under the surface forever.