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Defence lawyer Mr Bonnant told the court Mr Steinmetz never "paid a cent" to Ms Touré, and that anyway she was never actually legally married to President Conté, and therefore under Swiss law did not qualify as a bribable public official.

They’re also in the show’s freewheeling, lightly cynical humor — the fictional leader of South Africa is described as “their idiot president” by an outsider and “the most bribable statesman on the planet” by one of his own citizens.

When the prosecutors are bribable, when your supervisor is afraid to get crossways with the mob, when your fellow citizens have become inured to high levels of dishonesty and violence — well, where’s the harm in “reading” from a blank piece of paper now and then?

And if we do have a president who’s bribable, that’s going to give dictators a leg up over democracies, which can’t do that sort of thing because they operate under the rule of law.

Indeed, the few politicians whom prosecutors may be able to convict are those who are careless enough to put together corruption to-do lists, since, according Roberts, a test of whether something is a bribable official act is whether it is “the kind of thing that can be put on an agenda, tracked for progress, and then checked off as complete.”