Everyone knows it but it's impressive how often the media focus is made heavily on the businesses paying bribes while disregarding the government functionaries

Everyone knows it but it's impressive how often the media focus is made heavily on the businesses paying bribes while disregarding the government functionaries actively extorting those bribes, or at least happily accepting them and using mechanisms to keep them flowing. Aside from these governments no longer doing that, what should private interests do, cease all investment and business in certain countries?