The expression "prey to corruption" is correct and usable in written English when referring to a person or thing being affected by or susceptible to corruption or moral decay.
Example: The government official was sadly prey to corruption amid the chaotic political situation.
It was considered prey to corruption in the receiving country, and a way for the president to buy support.
Informal businesses have lower wages, lower growth rates, poorer safety records, tend not to pay taxes and are prey to corruption.
Experts say that India's legal framework monitoring government procurement should be strengthened to boost accountability and to prevent it from falling prey to corruption.
But 9,000km away, on the other side of the Indian ocean, Madagascar is still racked by poverty, a prey to corruption and greed.
Without transparency in government, those in power fall prey to corruption and general incompetence.
When a ruler loses his way, falling prey to corruption and immorality, he loses heaven's mandate and the right to rule.
As the Autodefensas falls prey to internal corruption and external politics, it becomes clear that nothing is black and white.
Emmanuel Maradas, the former editor of African Soccer magazine who has also worked in various roles for Fifa, says the dispensing of so much money to impoverished football associations did secure Blatter support and was inevitably prey to some corruption.
The longer the armed forces remain in place, the more likely they are to fall prey to the same corruption that wrecked the police force.
Members of his entourage could be prey to long-threatened corruption probes; his opponents talk of solving the dozens of extra-judicial executions that happened during his watch.In this section Now for the counter-revolution Rafsanjani's return?
Just about every political generation, without fail, a new group sweeps into Washington promising change, and more or less inevitably they fall prey to the same corruptions.
