Corruption is the same no matter who the players are or the country it in.
In the end, the taxpayers are on the hook for it while it taking years to unwind. Of course, often new politicians come in and compound the problem by making deals which worsens the situation.
@taskmaster4450, Brazil is under a pool of corruption.
Just for you have a number of what I am saying, an investigation process here that we call "carwash" indicted more than two hundred people involved in politics.