No big secret. This kind of activity is Standard Operating Procedure for socialist and mixed economies. Corruption is inevitable when government power is allowed to operate in the economic sphere. Russia is another good example. The only solution is to remove the armed power of government from the realm of economics.

"The rectangle of light in the acres of a farm was the window of the library of Judge Narragansett. He sat at a table, and the light of his lamp fell on the copy of an ancient document. He had marked and crossed out the contradictions in its statements that had once been the cause of its destruction. He was now adding a new clause to its pages: 'Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...' "



- from "Atlas Shrugged"