I have just read the link provided by GR. Fascinating but none of this is a surprise. Any mature company/organisation will be liable to this kind of behaviour (not all will succumb, of course) but since mankind has decided that the accumulation of wealth is paramount, then people will move towards it.
This article is a fascinating example of The Normalisation of Deviance. (many examples can be searched for). Can this corruption be stopped? Yes - but only when enough people have died and it can be PROVED to be caused by the corruption.