Your government is not more expert in stealing money any more than other corrupt governments. If you let very obvious ways of stealing happen, then perhaps the real issue is in the electorate the voters themselves. Maybe next time stop voting for old favorites, and vote for the outlier that will actually change the country.
Some of us live in countries where politicians are not just financially corrupt but experts in electoral rigging. It's really frustrating when you vote of the leader of your choice but the election is rigged to favour an incompetent and corrupt candidate.
I understand that, it's not important whether it is strong or not. We know that with Bitcoin, less corruption could be done on it but as long as there's a huge budget allotted on it. These corrupts will find a way to exploit it.
The easiest means of stealing money is through inflation of contracts. They will simply allocate more money to a project and steal the excess.