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This article investigates the historical emergence of the concept of corruption in various periods until its current modern manifestation. The author discusses the various definitions of political corruption present in the literature and argues that the categories of the public and private are integral to the modern notion of corruption. The article then delves into the novelty of the modern concept of political corruption through tracing its historical emergence, and the centrality of the division between the public and private realm as a defining feature of modern conceptualizations of political corruption. The article postulates that ‘rules of separation’ of private and public allow for anti-corruption efforts to function by never completely outlawing political corruption in modern societies, and only identifying some forms of private regarding as corruption while making most cases of private regarding within the public realm acceptable and normal.