The phrase "a wave of corruption" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden increase or spread of corrupt practices or behaviors within a system or organization.
Example: "The investigation revealed a wave of corruption that had infiltrated the local government, affecting numerous officials."
Alternatives: "a surge of corruption" or "an outbreak of corruption."
The indictment is the latest in what has seemed like a wave of corruption cases against lawmakers.
In fact, the rate of spending has some authorities concerned that the push for provincial spending could drive a wave of corruption.
Even before the energy crisis, a wave of corruption scandals sapped public confidence in the leadership of the nation, Latin America's largest.
Then, in 1993, after a wave of corruption scandals washed away many of the old "pols" who had run Italy since the second world war, he was appointed as a (stop-gap) prime minister.
In the wake of a wave of corruption allegations that swamped Fifa in 2011, Blatter reformed the ethics committee into a new twin-chamber arrangement, with Garcia heading the investigatory arm and Eckert overseeing the adjudicatory chamber.
But the split was a serious blow to Berlusconi, who has been under siege since revelations last year that he hosted parties attended by a prostitute, and more recently by a wave of corruption scandals.
In the late 1980's, after a wave of public corruption trials, Mayor Edward I. Koch and other city officials called on state lawmakers to "eliminate the loopholes in the city's pension laws".
Brazil is one of the world's largest economies, but has been mired in problems for the past two years thanks to what some observers call an overabundance of regulation and the political turmoil brought on by a wave of successive corruption scandals.
Beginning in the summer of 54 BC, a wave of political corruption and violence swept Rome.
Cabral, a member of President Michel Temer's Brazilian Democratic Movement party (PMDB), was the focus of intense ire during a wave of anti-corruption rallies that enveloped Brazil in 2013.
Yet one year after his inauguration, with President Obama set to pay a state visit on Monday, Russia remains engulfed by a tidal wave of corruption, hamstrung by a politicized justice system that is chasing away the enduring foreign investment and economic stability that Russia so desperately needs.
