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Originally Posted by Aliantha
Over here, anything like what you've suggested is meant to be reported to parliament as a gift and if it's anything dubious, there will be questions asked.
Our defence minister recently had to resign because of very similar issues, and no one really know if there'd been any impropriety, but it still looked bad enough that, combined with other issues, it put him out of a job.
eta: the minister didn't declare the 'gifts' he'd received which was one of the big stumbling blocks for him.
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We have had plenty of the same issues. I think it is less common than it was even 10 years ago but I am sure it still happens. Most recently Ted Stevens from Alaska was on trial for it. In the end he got a new house and really got off pretty easy, but lost his long running powerful seat in Congress. There are thousands of other examples.