He said he had counseled patience to followers faced with corrupt civil servants and administrators intolerant of workers who were practicing Muslims.

A highly efficient civil administrator, he pulled up slack and corrupt public servants and introduced many new innovations in the public administration.

There are always corrupt servants.

The government's offensive has led to more than 700 arrests - among them many corrupt public servants - and the confiscation of 1.4m cubic metres of illegal timber.

By the time he's 21, Jem has happily abandoned his earlier trades to become a casually corrupt civil servant of Oliver Cromwell's republic.

'This is well done of you, sir, to corrupt my servants, and enter my house unbidden and in secret, like a thief!'

Mr Chavez promised "revolutionary" social policies, and constantly abused the "predatory oligarchs" of the establishment as corrupt servants of international capital.

"But I find it rather endearing that he found someone he could respect and admire, since he considered most public servants corrupt or ignorant, bumbling fools."

After all, it doesn't cost billions to buy a corrupt public servant.

Some corrupt civil servants and cabinet ministers happily inherited graft projects and nurtured them to super pet projects.