[sologoub]

It depends on the country/connectedness of the execs with the said authority. In a non-corrupt place, sure report away. In a slightly corrupt, what if the regulator plays golf with an exec at your company? Or went to the same grade school? Etc. Fully corrupt is the easiest to explain.

[mrweasel]

True, I just don’t get the impression that the author live in central american or sub-saharan africa. He might though, so yeah that’s a valid point.

[alisonkisk]

Come on. Regulators who handle individual minor cases are low level finctioaries, not moustache twirling Rothschilds.

[sologoub]

Golf is more of a US euphemism for connectedness/social shared sports, could be anything really - basketball, racketball, softball, whatever.

As for low level... I guess you have never lived in smaller cities/towns in Europe then. People know each other and afford those they know “courtesy” of a heads up. Word spreads, etc. From there, you are only one step away from someone retaliating against you. The kicker is that those involved might not even really understand this to be somewhat corrupt behavior.