Identifying political corruption in developed world.
Political corruption is usually a charge aimed at developing countries.
But attention here was focused issues such as the French political scandals and the way money buys the US Congress. Dominique Borde, a board member of Doctors Without Borders, says corruption is one of the tools of the market system. In France for many years, it was possible to corrupt foreign political leaders and private investors as long as you went to the Treasury, disclosed you were sending commissions, it was tax deductible. Two years ago that practice was repealed. But, he asked, we have to ask all know there is a level of corruption we don't consider corruption.