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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by ChuckNorris89 on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:26AM (#23870786)
Except you're ignoring the part where the copper cable policy he pushed against the advice of his experts made the company he sold his share to obscenely rich.

Is that also not corruption but incompetence?

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by DangerousPie on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:39AM (#23870984)
I don’t see how you could call this corruption, he didn’t benefit from someone else getting rich. Unless there is any evidence that he sold his shares at an inflated price with the understanding that he would pay back the favour while in office or something like that, which I don’t think there is.
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by ChuckNorris89 on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:56AM (#23871200)
It doesn't matter who benefits from this deal, what matters is the country got shit infrastructure against the advice of his experts and the taxpayers paid for it.

Since he signed off on this, it's on him to be investigated.

That's what corruption is.

Of course, if you want, you can cover it up in red tape and make it look like incompetence.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by DangerousPie on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:10AM (#23871350)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption

First sentence:

> Corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one's private gain

That's what corruption is.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by slightwinder on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:41AM (#23871005)
This still lacks the information of his personal benefit. It's just no corruption until you have a benefit from it.

And experts are also no argument, as there are always experts saying this and that which you can call on later for eny kind of complain.

Neither you nor me are informend enough to say whether it was corruption, biasment, incompetence or something else. We don't even know whether it was good or bad for history. 30-40 years are a long time for technology and infrastructure.

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