Another said one manager had taken more backhanders than Wimbledon.
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She disapproves of farm subsidies and other congressional backhanders to big business.
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Uighurs often had to pay large backhanders to get hold of one.
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His building programme produced backhanders and white elephants as well as useful infrastructure.
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And activists complain that high-ranking officials are never prosecuted for taking backhanders.
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Last year a poll by Afrobarometer found that half of Liberians had to pay backhanders for public services.
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Couture and Donskoi followed with backhanders, the final one from behind the goal line to set up Karlsson.
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Mr Calil was detained by officials in Paris in 2002 as they investigated embezzlement and backhanders paid to Abacha.
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In a Twitter post on Friday, Kammenos implied backhanders played a role in the Macedonian approval of the name change.
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It appears to be tantamount to an export subsidy to Chinese firms, with a side order of backhanders for local elites.
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But the project was mired in controversy; there were claims that the Dutch shipbuilder, Damen, had paid backhanders to win the order.
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Song Jianguo, then head of the city's traffic-management bureau, was jailed for life in 2015 for demanding backhanders in exchange for rigging the lottery.
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Many also noticed that, despite Mr Aquino's noble statements about following "the straight path", ordinary folk still had to pay backhanders to police and bureaucrats.
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About half of Liberians polled by Afrobarometer last June said they had been forced to pay backhanders for help from the police or to get public services.
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Along with fellow one-handed backhanders Grigor Dimitrov, Tommy Haas, and Novak Djokovic, Federer has recorded the first single for the new boy band, the Backhand Boys.
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Even some critics of the demolitions accept there were often legal violations and backhanders when the buildings were erected, often many years ago in the 1990s or early 2000s.
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President Xi Jinping's anti-graft drive is making it harder to secure a place in the best ones by using the once common methods of paying backhanders and pulling strings.
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EVER since an audio recording emerged in May of Brazil's president, Michel Temer, seeming to discuss paying hush money and backhanders, the country's zealous prosecutors have been expected to pounce.
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His focus on crime and corruption—the two main issues of his campaign—resonates with ordinary voters, who are tired of being victims of crime and paying backhanders and "facilitation fees".
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Known as "Chickengate" — because Smith and Ouzman representatives had codenamed the backhanders they were paying "chicken" — a UK trial found company director Nicholas Smith and chairman Christopher Smith had paid out £400,000 ($580,000) in bribes to officials in Kenya and Mauritania for deals worth £2.26 million ($3.29 million) to make ballot papers.
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It also revealed numerous veterinarians taking backhanders to list false birth dates and sign off on vaccinations for dogs they had never even seen, allowing underage and unvaccinated puppies to enter the UK. Boyden says that poses a serious public health risk, including diseases that can be transmitted to humans, such as rabies or the tapeworm echinococcus multilocularis.
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Buying land and buildings, hurdling regulations and dealing with the Education Department introduced her to Hong Kong's subculture of corruption, in which the ba wong, or triads, extorted protection money from every hut-dweller and even from street hawkers; in which everyone expected backhanders; and where the police were up to theirkhaki shorts in the narcotics trade.
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" When asked by Grant whether Cameron had encouraged the Metropolitan Police to "drag their feet" on investigating illegal phone tapping by Murdoch's journalists, McMullan agreed this had happened, and stated that police themselves had taken bribes from tabloid journalists: "20 percent of the Met has taken backhanders from tabloid hacks. So why would they want to open up that can of worms?... And what's wrong with that, anyway? It doesn't hurt anyone particularly.
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His parents were accused of taking backhanders to influence his decision; Taiwo stated that these "false claims" were highly "upsetting" to him. Taiwo joined League Two club Port Vale on a month's loan in August 2008. He made his debut, coming on as a substitute in the 61st minute, at home to Bournemouth, in the 3–1 win on 30 August. Vale sent him back to Chelsea in September after they decided not to extend his loan.
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" When asked by Grant whether Cameron had encouraged the Metropolitan Police to "drag their feet" on investigating illegal phone tapping by Murdoch's journalists, McMullan agreed that this had happened, but also stated that the police themselves had taken bribes from tabloid journalists, so had a motive to comply: > "20 per cent of the Met has taken backhanders from tabloid hacks. So why > would they want to open up that can of worms?... And what's wrong with that, > anyway? It doesn't hurt anyone particularly.
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The Don Beech Scandal was one of two major storylines centred on corrupt Detective Sergeant Don Beech. Since the character's debut in 1995, his corruption had steadily grown, taking backhanders from suspects, making deals with dodgy criminals, and getting himself immersed into the underworld of crime. The Scandal played out over three years in the show - beginning with the introduction of DS Claire Stanton in 1999 and Beech's imprisonment in his second major storyline in 2001. The storyline concluded with the whole of CID being suspended, with only four officers being reinstated.
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A few months later, it was revealed that Jensen's transfer to Highbury was at least partly motivated by George Graham's involvement with agent Rune Hauge, who had been giving Graham backhanders in exchange for signing players he represented. The first player involved in this 'bung' scandal was Norwegian defender Pål Lydersen, and the second was Jensen. Graham was sacked from his job two months after the story broke, and he was subsequently banned from football for 12 months. Jensen played on for 18 months before he left Highbury in the summer of 1996, with one goal from 138 competitive appearances for the club.
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January 2013 saw major revelations regarding the activities of Luis Bárcenas, the former treasurer of the Partido Popular. The Spanish justice system released information from the Swiss authorities regarding his financial dealings in Switzerland, and the press reported on alleged slush funds run for the benefit of the Partido Popular. The allegations of illegal party funding came initially from El Mundo, Spain's leading center-right newspaper which is normally close to the Partido Popular. It alleged that secret donations had been used for under-the-table payments ("backhanders") to party officials.EFE, "Spain’s Ruling Party to Probe Swiss Bank Account Scandal." in Latin American Herald Tribune Citing sources within the Partido Popular, the newspaper appeared to clear its current leadership, saying that the reported payments were made between 1989 and 2009.
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" Both David Sims and Emily VanDerWerff, two reviewers from The A.V. Club, rated it with a B+. TV Fanatic's Matt Richenthal also considered it the best of the season but was worried about the ending and how magic would be dealt with in the show. There was consensus in considering the episode the most violent and gruesome to date. Writing for The Guardian, Sarah Hughes summed it up: "This was an exceptionally violent episode. It featured: one death by Direwolf; one graphic foot amputation; two separate uses of a crossbow as a weapon of intimidation; the continued humiliation of Sansa, stripped and beaten on Joffrey's orders; the brutal whipping of a whore again at Joffrey's command; two torture scenes (one of which was interrupted); a couple of backhanders; several dead bodies and one (slightly camp) Qartheen blood oath.
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