Random agencies have the power to raid / pass judgement. Look what happened in New York recently with Mr. Peanut with 10 agents going after a squirrel then killing him for no reason other than his follower count was high.
That politician is like the president of the United States in terms of power.
Slimy corrupt behavior is politics. Take an issue you care about and send money to someone who will get what you done is the basis of democracy. The more money you send the bigger the parties you get invited to is that the line on slimy.
Why did you conclude that?
There were some user uploaded pirated content in our platform. As far as I know, some media company won approval by some judge for a raid to discover the extent of piracy. It's just in the police rulebook to get everything during the raid where there could be pirated content, including employees laptops.
And the 2nd half just reads like pure corruption to me, they paid off some politician (who just so happens to wield the most power in the whole country) to pressure him to get them to stop their investigation into their illegal acts? In what universe could that 2nd sentence be construed as anything other than slimy, corrupt behavior?