The phrase "a nest of corruption" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or organization that is deeply involved in corrupt practices or unethical behavior.
Example: "The investigation revealed that the local government was nothing more than a nest of corruption, with officials accepting bribes and misusing public funds."
Alternatives: "a hub of corruption" or "a den of corruption".
It is a nest of corruption".
The failure of BCCI also revealed a nest of corruption, money laundering and other secretive activities.
Buhari has also taken steps to clean house at the state-run oil firm, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, a nest of corruption.
In Fritz Lang's 1953 film "The Big Heat," Glenn Ford (at far right, with Peter Whitney) plays a cop who, while investigating the death of an officer, unearths a nest of corruption and violence.
The one is a nest of corruption and inter-religious factionalism, with abject poverty, elections nobody trusts and an oil wealth that has been shamefully squandered and scandalously expropriated.
The rest have fallen foul of Switzerland's five-year statute of limitations for such crimes.The oddity in hindsight is that most of the malefactors seem to have been businessmen, not members of the UN bureaucracy, which many American congressmen denounced as a nest of corruption.
Boxing had become a nest of "gambling related corruption" by the 1820s.
Naftogaz -- formerly a hornet's nest of corruption -- saw its leadership replaced by a young, professional, and reform-minded team, who have worked tirelessly to diversify supplies.
Spenser and his friend Hawk wend their way through the Boston underworld and other locales, uncovering a viper's nest of corruption and greed.
He brings his crusade to the press, railing against police brutality and what he calls a "hornet's nest of corruption" in the Bronx district attorney's office.
By the time Hoover was named director in 1924, the bureau was a nest of nepotism and low-level corruption -- in one attorney general's words (not quoted by Powers), "filled with men with bad records... many convicted of crimes... organization lawless".
