When Everything Is Audited and Digitized, How Does Corruption Still Happen?
Today many government processes leave digital trails procurement systems, approvals, audits, payments etc.
Yet we still occasionally hear corruption cases involving politicians, contractors, or IAS, IPS and many other power positions.
My curiosity is more about the system design: where do these breakdowns usually happen?
Also, if someone were accumulating large amounts of money, wouldn’t agencies like the Income Tax Department eventually flag unexplained income?
How do such cases even survive in systems with audits and tax monitoring?
PS: I will be a corporate guy only but still got curious about how do they endup accumulating money being untracked "earned" from ill means.
About the Income Tax Department: money is rarely kept in the primary account. It’s funneled into benami properties, gold, shell companies, or offshore accounts. Corruption today is less about bags of cash and more about consultancy fees or over-invoicing where the paper trail looks legitimate but the value provided is zero. Digitization only catches the amateur, the pros use the system to hide the money.
But how come properties remain untracked as it has to be registered on someone's name?
