Here, politicians are often well-connected or assertive, able to break through bureaucratic walls with their temperament. Or they're the children of prominent politicians.
In my country, children of politicians end up becoming politicians themselves and so the cycle of corrupt politicians end up continuing. These wealthy people launder their money or just spend their money through gambling without any guilt or conscience for whatever they are doing.
The root of this problem is within the citizen itself for still voting the same politicians over and over despite knowing they are corrupt.
Their vote can be easily purchased during elections that makes them blind on the real intention of this politician. These so called nepo babies are just the product of the cycle that will keep repeating until the citizen will change their perspective.
I believe on this case, Government employee involved are not truly gambling rather laundering.
It really captures the cycle that traps so many countries once politics turns into a family business it stops being about service and becomes about inheritance the “nepo baby” phenomenon just feeds the same corrupt culture over and over because power and money keep passing through the same hands without accountability. The sad part is like you said the citizens themselves sometimes keep the wheel spinning when votes are sold for a short-term favor or a small amount of cash the long-term cost is ignored this blindness to intention is exactly what corrupt politicians rely on they know many won’t question as long as something immediate is offered.
As for gambling in these cases it’s rarely gambling in the true sense of the word it’s often a mask for laundering dirty money casinos and similar setups provide an easy channel to wash funds and make them look legitimate so it’s less about thrill or risk and more about converting corruption into something spendable without raising eyebrows. Breaking that cycle takes both political will and citizen awareness but real change usually starts when people value integrity more than short-term gain until then the same faces will keep rotating in and out and the system keeps feeding itself.