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Different forms are distinguished by who exercises control and which institutions they targetRead more: How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco stateTwo crypto-billionaires pour millions into a political party and its wannabe prime minister. A drug trafficker’s bribe to a senior official buys a cocaine shipment safe passage across a border. Human traffickers take control of the institutions mandated to stop them. A foreign power uses evidence of a president’s sexual abuse of children to dictate government policy. An influential lobby group donates to both a ruling party and opposition members. All are routes to state capture.The Dictionary of Corruption defines state capture as systematic corruption whereby narrow interest groups take control of the institutions and processes through which public policy is made, directing it away from the common good and towards their own interests. Continue reading...

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