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*Regulators want bribes
I don't know about Finland as well as I know about Sweden, but here in Sweden, we don't really do outright bribes.
They are far too messy...
Instead, what happens is that a government official approves Company A for a large contract even though Company B had a batter and cheaper option. The reason is stated as somethibg nebulous and hard to disprove.
Then, a year or two later, the same government official resigns from office, and Company A quickly hires them as a coordination consultant between the company and the government.
And since the person has highly specific knowledge about not only the government, but the contract as well as contacts in the government, the company has a reason to offer a very high compenstation for the consultancy without it looking suspicious.
The person is retained by the company untill the "debt" is paid and the person leaves the company.
No bribe is paid, just a fair compensation to a consultant with highly relevant skills.
Pretty much the same here in Finland, and that’s why we are one of the least corrupted countries around. We just keep it a bit more quiet and are 2nd of the list, not the 6th like the Sweden. Huzzah!
Google “Orpo Garden Helsinki” though if you’d like to read about recent amateurish attempt of our prime minister at high level corruption.
https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/finland
Yeah no, it does not work directly like that, around here. If they thought they can just buy their way quickly out of this... Now that they got caught, Google just brought upon itself a good round of the Nordic bureaucracy hell. And if they managed to piss of the locals, the complaints alone can delay the whole thing easily for years, lmao.
Oh you sweet Summer child
I'm Nordic as well, it's over
Oh they will get through it, that is not the question. But they will have to jump through all the hoops, especially now, since the whole country is watching.
I mean Finns are prickly people, so they actually may resist for awhile.
But in my country the politicians are celebrating the bribes and dancing to their tunes.
Yeah, our money-worshipper-party and racist-party politicians are definitely dancing to their tunes as well. But we are very much into following the procedures, so you cannot really buy yourself through the system quickly. Google may have gotten some form of a fast track, had they just waited for a bit, since the politicians supporting would find the ways for it. But now that they broke the law, people are upset, and the spotlight is on the case, meaning it is going to be combed through. Which can take time, and they might really end up with some repercussions as well... And if they did piss off some locals, those formal complaints have postponed even huge projects for years, since they all will be handled through the correct bureaucracy.