The scandal broke when the first of many videotapes were aired on Peruvian television showing Fujimori's top adviser, spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing an opposition lawmaker to join Fujimori's ranks after the former president failed to win a ruling party majority in Congress in 2000 elections.

Montesinos is currently in jail facing a wide range of corruption charges while Fujimori remains in self-exile in Japan, where he fled after the scandal.

According to the poll, published Tuesday in the daily El Comercio, 63 percent said they were partially in agreement with giving "gifts or money" to speed up paperwork. Only 28 percent were totally opposed. Meanwhile, 64 percent said they tolerated bribing police officers to avoid fines.

"We have reached the conclusion that corruption is a cultural act in Peru," Jose Ugaz, president of Pro Etica, told local television.

"They (the population) do not consider it is something to be rejected," said Ugaz, who was also the former prosecutor in the Montesinos case.

The survey was carried out Oct 10-Nov 6 and a total of 5,122 heads of households were surveyed. It has a margin of error of 1.4 percentage points.