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Business Recorder op-ed writer Shabir Ahmed in his latest article "Consumer interest losing to producer interest?" has raised a highly important point by arguing, among other things, that "The days of mulching government contracts, transferring the yield to Swiss bank accounts, and transferring them back as white money are gone. Today the name of the game is 'legalised corruption': making money through government policies that you shape to your advantage. What better example of legalisation than amnesty schemes."
The phrase 'legalised corruption' gives birth to a profound question: Is lobbying legal bribery or legalised corruption?

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019

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