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Mobutu Sese Seko, Congo's strongman during the Cold War, was one of Africa's most notorious thieves, though back then it was easier to get away with corruption.

Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the committee, said: "Broken systems of accountability and a patchwork of police standards and training, have allowed a minority of police officers to get away with corruption and incompetence which is blighting an otherwise excellent service with dedicated officers.

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And thus the military and its corporate partners get away with appalling corruption and unspeakable ecological crimes.

"And the PRI thought that they could get away with murder with corruption as before.

"Once an employee learns he can get away with low-level corruption and still advance up the ranks, he or she becomes more brazen".

Instead, most politicians get away with the legal kind of corruption, taking huge swaths of cash from billionaires via unregulated outside campaign organizations.

Thus, the leader can get away with a high level of corruption without being punished as much or as long (via the cost term Cx in the objective).

It was a sign, many observers said, that a new era had dawned in which no one, not even a popular former president, could engage in corruption and get away with it.

He warned, however, that the seemingly mystifying inability of many chief executives to quickly extricate themselves from troubles could be a sign that the problems have developed through long habit: "The way it is with corruption, at first you get away with a little, you get away with a little more and you get away with more still".

Partly because they are not paid properly for their work, they use the system to make money for themselves and are the main source of corruption, which they get away with it thanks to political contacts.

We cannot allow the architects and controllers of world football to get away with dragging the beautiful game through the grime of corruption and bribery.

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