I am very suspicious of foreigners researching 'the hidden secrets of Greece'...Greece is in a very vulnerable situation and needs sympathetic and understanding support. The fact that you don't speak Greek and that you have to resort to this site to fish for stories suggests you are very poorly prepared for investigating this extremely complex and multi-faceted problem. I would suggest you change your topic. Perhaps start by investigating corruption in your own country (Belgium?) where you may encounter some surprising results.

really straightforward? OK, here are some questions for you: is it a fakelaki when a patient brings a gift in kind for the doctor? is it a fakelaki when a teacher offers to support a failing student and the parents take her out to dinner to say thank you? is it a fakelaki when the father of the student works, let's say in poleodomia and makes sure that the teacher's building license goes through though there are reasons to stop it? is it compliance when a civil servant does not take money for himself but silently witnesses many of his coleagues doing it without saying anything? is it compliance when the patients persistently pester doctors to prioritise them over others and demand to reward the doctor for the service? ...you'd be surprised dear compatriot to find out that in most of these cases Europeans would say 'inappropriate, shouldn't happen.' Well, in Greece all the above would not be considered fakelaki.

"What is the complexity of the fakelaki dear greek lamogio-ellhnara?..." Hahahaha, great english!!

I absolutely oppose fakelakia. However, I share the deep skepticism expressed by the other poster here about Lina Nasser's project re. "the hidden secrets of Greece." First, there's nothing "secret" about fakelakia in Greece, or indeed about corruption in general, or otherwise we wouldn't be discussing this on an open forum. It's been very widely publicized in the media for many years. Perhaps too widely publicized, meaning that the extent of the phenomenon might have been blown out of proportion, and some of the stories may have been exaggerated or even downright planted in order to destroy people's careers and reputations. A site like this is ideal for making dubious allegations because the accusers stay anonymous (and hence can say anything they want), whereas the accused can be (and often are) named. This asymmetry is unjust and dangerous. If someone has a genuine case to report, they can call a hotline to have the guilty arrested. Why don't they do that? I'm all for transparency and openness, but anonymous allegations are *not* transparent. If someone has to say something important (and fakelaki is important), they should stand up and say it in the open, not hide behind the anonymity of a computer terminal.