Corruption is a type of conspiring yes. Your point?
Conspiracy, or conspiracy theory?
Sick of seeing "educated" communities conflate the two.
This is standard stuff in all countries. If you need something political done and you have given (“invested”) a lot of money to something a politician cares about, it tends to grease the wheels. Happens in every government on earth.
It happens different amounts in different countries. And the difference matters. Government corruption is a major drag on the economy. And therefore less corrupt countries experience compounding growth that helps them become rich countries.