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by leviliebvin 511 days ago
https://www.politico.eu/article/e36b-tax-fraud-scandal-retur...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumEx-Files

The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corruption. In some cultures, if a public servant buys a coffee using the company card, that's a scandal, and some of those cultures have a reputation for being corrupt. In Germany, everyone downplays corruption for some reason. But I see it everywhere, especially in everything that had to do with public funds. But it's never called corruption, so corruption does not exist because it is never acknowledged.

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"The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corrruption."

100%.

Cheers for the references.