Imagine the salary of those officials, and then the costs of living, this dosen´t match.
When I went into Kirgistan, I was welcomed by a bunch of special forces, fully masked with rapid fire guns, violently pushed into my chair when I wanted to leave. For not stopping at a stop sign which was covered by a bus, they even had a video of it. I only had a 50€ bill which was then gone. It tought me the lesson to always have a bribe purse. In Elista/Russia, I was asked by a police officer "do you speak english?" I said "yes", and he replied to himself in russian "but I don´t, dawai, dawai." When I crossed into Kazakhstan from Kirgistan, I had a german chocolat bar on top in my Top Case (which was always the first to be checked.) The fat one got greedy for it and stopped the slim one from searching me, as soon as I gave the chocolate bar to him.
In Marocco I was once given back the 30€ bribe, because of my heartwarming story about my time in North Africa as a child, which never happend. My french is excellent, it prevented me from paying a bribe on the same trip. But I don´t care if the fine, which I pay for mistakes I make goes into any private pocket. It´s an individual thing, whenever your violating the traffic laws, feel free to pay the just fine, even if it goes into the private pocket...why does anyone want to be the teacher of those people, without knowing the whole story. Maybe he has no other choice, or has to take the chance. If you run a navigation system, you´ll have a proof of your v-max (put the reset button in sight ;-) )if you have an action cam (not even running), you just tell them you have a video of the last half hour. It worked everytime.

It´s easy maths: Corruption will vanish as soon as the officials get enough wages for their living, but then we will have to pay the same prices for everything as at home. In Albania a judge in Tirana owns around 700 €, a flat will cost 400 - 500€...
So here is may plead to every traveller: please do not intend to teach the locals what is right and what is wrong, without knowing thr the whole story, no one likes that not even a welsh ;-) and it´s the same all over the world. The secret is blending in, even if you have a different opinion...just my 2 cent.

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