happened in brazil as well. everyone knows you only build large public projects there if money change hands. and it usually happens that the gov official get t

happened in brazil as well. everyone knows you only build large public projects there if money change hands. and it usually happens that the gov official get the quotes from all the companies, call the one paying him the most and tell the other quotes and that company submit a little lower than the lowest and get the job, later including several hidden fees, etc. the, for the sao paulo subway expansion, a journalist did a search and found documents proving all that for that specific job (yellow metro line) and published them. gov removed the documents, waited for all signs of it ever being indexed to disappear and then sued him. i think the trial is still going and they still deny those documents ever existed.