@luke Exactly that! Here in Portugal, things seem corrupt because there's a lot of, "oh, you want this service. My friend works there. Let me have a word and you can jump the queue".
Which is "corrupt", but "Imma just create a shell company in the British Virgin Islands and you can award it an M25 widening scheme which I won't actually bother delivering, and instead I'll donate 80% of it back to 'charitable causes', as run by your good self, and we'll see what's what. Golf later?" isn't.