Spammers Bribe Russian Officials

hellkyng writes with a transcript of interesting chat logs in Krebs on Security. From the article: "Leaked online chats between the co-owners of the world's largest pharmacy spam operation reveal the extent to which illicit organizations in Russia purchase political protection, and bribe public officials into initiating or stalling law enforcement investigations."

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So it's like America

[Hatta]

Except the spammers are corporations. And the bribes are campaign contributions. And the public officials are, oh they're still public officials.