Corporates And Corruption

There are two answers to this. It is extremely difficult to secure conviction in crimes involving business though the initial investigating team may think it has a very good case. Powerful businessmen, once they get the time, are usually able to bring their influence to bear. Or the raids and cases are not seriously initiated in the first place. They are sometimes undertaken in response to public clamour for action. They are also occasionally initiated to reap a particular publicity harvest and meant to be forgotten thereafter. That the guilty may buy their reprieve or the innocent may be tried and damned by publicity bodes ill for any civil society. In fact, these two phenomena explain the rot that has pervaded our body politic. If there is anything worse than public corruption then it is the use of morality as a political weapon without any serious concern about ridding the system of the malaise. The best hope at the present juncture is that the current churning will clean up the system at least partially. This hope is strengthened by the fact that the present train of events was initiated not by politicians but by the courts in disjointed and unpremeditated spurts of action. Concern over corruption must go hand in hand with concern over the guilty buying their freedom and politicians cynically using the morality platform for their own ends.