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My favourite about HP is how they were charged by US authorities for corruption in Poland while Polish authorities haven't found anything on them.

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not related to HP, but in the same way German officials were found to have corrupted Portuguese politicians over the purchase of 3 submarines, yet the Portuguese police didn't find any wrongdoing.

https://corruption-tracker.org/case/german-submarine-sales-t...

Paulo Portas still has his cushy prime-time pundit job to this day, he's in line for the presidency.

His stack of photocopies protects him from any whistleblowing...

German industry is well known to corrupt in "corrupted" countries.

To corrupt "corrupted" government officials would be more exact. Unless you think Germany has some moral high ground on Portugal which just the last 100 of history years should give you different ideas about comparing countries outright like this.

In context of Germany I heard multiple times a phrase "ethical superpower" used unironically. I that helps, both Poland and Portugal would be in "corrupted" basket.

Because they pay more bribes? Or because they get caught more often?

oh they never get caught, and punished? it's unheard of

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