Corruption can take on a host of different forms. It can, and...

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Corruption can take on a host of different forms.

It can, and often does, involve the police and judicial systems, including questionable enforcement of business contracts and other commercial litigation.

It frequently involves diversion of a percentage of funds from critical projects into the pockets of senior government officials or their families

under-the-counter payments for everything from the simplest municipal services to appointments to many of the nation's highest offices, particularly those where there is the greatest access to illicit profits...

(Forbes Magazine:
forbes.com/home/2007/04/03/corrupt...

...Corruption is operationally defined as the misuse of entrusted power for private gain. TI further differentiates between "according to rule" corruption and "against the rule" corruption.

Facilitation payments, where a bribe is paid to receive preferential treatment for something that the bribe receiver is required to do by law, constitute the former.

The latter, on the other hand, is a bribe paid to obtain services the bribe receiver is prohibited from providing.

...siphoning off public money into private pockets

corruption constitutes a major obstacle to democracy and the rule of law.
...the abuse of power for personal gain, the siphoning off of public or common resources into private pockets is unacceptable in all cultures and societies.

(Transparency International: transparency.org/news_room/faq/cor...

IS HAITI A CORRUPT COUNTRY?

Zarien Krab Spider, July 13 2008, 4:16 AM

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