Originally Posted by David Pilling in the Financial Times
... in Asia managers are obliged to spend time and energy figuring out how to avoid paying bribes or, at least, how to pay without being caught. Some multinationals hire middlemen to deal with the messy realities. That gives senior executives a degree of distance.
Such [anti-corruption] measures are welcome. Yet they raise questions. One is whether courts can be trusted to administer justice impartially. If not, there will always be an air of arbitrariness about prosecutions. Cynics might suspect that those who find themselves in court have paid too few bribes rather than too many.