When most people think of bribery, it elicits images of shadowy offshore accounts and high-level business executives and politicians shaking hands in boardrooms. It is certainly not something that we might think of in our everyday lives. A new report by ISEC suggests that everyday corruption in the UK is both widespread and largely invisible.

In our report, we surveyed 1,000 UK adults about their experiences of bribery and money laundering. The results were alarming.

• 16% of respondents—roughly 7.5 million adults—said they’d been asked to pay a bribe in the past year.
• 9% actually paid one.
• 11% were asked to help launder money.
• 7% admitted taking part.

https://www.economic-criminology.com/post/the-uk-s-dirty-secret-millions-of-britons-are-exposed-to-bribery-and-money-laundering