Some of it is also because you don’t find corruption if you’re not looking for it.
Real countries have rules about money in politics. My home country is Denmark is less developed in that sense. There is a law stating that parties have to disclose the names of anybody who donates more than the equivalent of USD 2900. Anything below that can be donated completely anonymously and the law only manages the disclosure of the name, not the amount given.
But what if you want to donate more than that and still keep it quiet? Well, then you can either get a bunch of your friends to donate just below the threshold or you can form what is known as a “money club”, an organisation that exists for the sole purpose of obscuring the flow of money in politics. So instead of donating a ton of money to your favourite party, you give it to “The Liberal Business Club” who then passes it on to the corrupt recipient’s. All the public will ever know is that said club made a donation. It’s completely legal and doesn’t count as corruption.
Or you can do what the right wing party did last time here in Arg where they stole identities of random people to launder money donating to their party in their name.
Yet for some reason the media conglomerate didn’t make much fuzz about it :thonk
Some of it is also because you don’t find corruption if you’re not looking for it.
Real countries have rules about money in politics. My home country is Denmark is less developed in that sense. There is a law stating that parties have to disclose the names of anybody who donates more than the equivalent of USD 2900. Anything below that can be donated completely anonymously and the law only manages the disclosure of the name, not the amount given.
But what if you want to donate more than that and still keep it quiet? Well, then you can either get a bunch of your friends to donate just below the threshold or you can form what is known as a “money club”, an organisation that exists for the sole purpose of obscuring the flow of money in politics. So instead of donating a ton of money to your favourite party, you give it to “The Liberal Business Club” who then passes it on to the corrupt recipient’s. All the public will ever know is that said club made a donation. It’s completely legal and doesn’t count as corruption.
Or you can do what the right wing party did last time here in Arg where they stole identities of random people to launder money donating to their party in their name.
Yet for some reason the media conglomerate didn’t make much fuzz about it :thonk