10 September 2010

Corruption - fill in the blanks

Almost one-third of [             ] are "utterly corrupt" and half are "borderline", the outgoing head of the country's corruption watchdog has said, blaming increased wealth for much of the problem.

"When we were growing up I remember if somebody was corrupt, they were generally looked down upon," he said. "There was at least some social stigma attached to it. That is gone. So there is greater social acceptance."

In an interview published on Tuesday he said that 20 percent of [           ] were "honest, regardless of the temptations, because this is how they are. They have a conscience. There would be around 30 percent who would be utterly corrupt. But the rest are the people who are on the borderline," he said, adding that corruption was "palpable".

He said that in modern [             ] "if somebody has a lot of money, he is respectable. Nobody questions by what means he has got the money."

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