Almost every representative of the people begins his political life with a lie a statement of his election expenses. He spends far more then the law allows him. This compulsion to spend more then the law allows stems out of the belief that the Indian voter can be bribed into accepting non-performance from the political executive. Thus, the origin and need of unaccounted money can be laid at the entrance door of our democratic system itself. Political corruption is the fountainhead of all other forms of corruption.
Politicians are very quick to make laws to regulate and control of the citizens.
They are however very loath to make any laws to control and regulate their own behaviour. In developed countries, the citizen has the right to obtain information from the government. In India, which is trying to become a developed country, the government has retained the right to withhold information. Almost every piece of government paper is labeled secret in that the average citizen has no right to see it. Thus it is by design that corruption flourishes under such obsessive secrecy.