Yes, easily. If the operators of such business at point X bought enough politicians, it would suddenly become a major public safety issue to limit the number of shoe stores. And the supply of accountants is limited by the cost of CPA licensing, rather than by market forces.
In Latin countries, you have la mordida but at least its done in the open. Payoffs just make things regular. Here the corruption is concealed by the hand of government interfering in the market to ensure winners and losers. Its far from being a free market.