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Reply to "Senior GRA official sent home following late night shakedown of businessman"

caribny posted:

Or was it that he didn't share the proceeds with the relevant folks, or that he "accidentally" harassed some one who was paying off folks on high to be protected against folks like him?

Guyana is so corrupt that I often wonder when one person is made an example of and yet the system continues to be corrupt. 

Corruption is so entrenched that it has become the norm across administrations. In fact recently I had to deal with land and mines and was shocked at how bribery was solicited openly and even shrugged off as a cost of doing business by the higher ups. To get a simple valuation of property, if you didn't grease the palm of the engineers and his boss, your application would be delayed for months on end. When the valuation is finally done, you also got to pay the chief engineer to get the paperwork or you would be told to come back week after week until you complied with the bribery. They don't even call it bribery, but I see that it is, which official will ask for 10,000 GYD without giving a receipt, stating that this is how much documents would cost? 

FM
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