Well, the EU has a "parliament" that can't change the law, and the EU supreme court (ECJ) has been caught in the past hearing a case where both sides are being argued by the same law firm and the plaintiff didn't even know they were engaged in a court case at all. There was no investigation and nothing was changed. EU media is in general pretty supine and doesn't report on EU level corruption, so given such shenanigans it seems likely the ECJ is quite corrupt. So it's not unknown in Europe.
