The $52 million they were accused of collecting or demanding in bribes from businesses included $38 million in bribes or promised bribes from Samsung.
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Nhleko has denied that he authorized bribes or that any bribes were paid.
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The money went toward funds for food, bribes for the smugglers, and bribes for when he ran into police.
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Korkmaz also said that Halkbank's then-general manager, Suleyman Aslan, took bribes from Zarrab, but that there was no evidence Atilla took bribes.
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Mr. Percoco is charged with accepting bribes in return for official actions on behalf of upstate developers; Mr. Howe claims he facilitated the bribes.
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Mr. Percoco is accused of solicitation of bribes, conspiracy and other charges; his co-defendants are executives with two companies accused of making the bribes.
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Odebrecht has admitted to U.S. and Brazilian prosecutors that it paid $10.5 million in bribes in Mexico but details on those bribes have not been made public.
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Singer said they were not bribes -- rather donations -- and that's when he says an agent started screaming at him ... ordering him to lie and say they were bribes.
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Interestingly, Porteous was removed not only for taking bribes while a federal judge but also for taking bribes while a state court judge before he assumed federal office.
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Although the acts of bribery and taking bribes carry the same penalties under Chinese law, the authorities have so far been focused more on punishing those who accept bribes.
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Bribes are no longer bribes, campaign funds from corporations are free speech, and the politicians are just being good public servants when they accept money from those who seek their favor.
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But it had not been proved that Karimova, the alleged recipient of the bribes, was included in the group of persons who could be held liable for taking bribes, it said.
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But even though Mr. Singh pleaded guilty to giving the mayor bribes, the prosecutors handling the inquiry could never prove that Mr. de Blasio considered them bribes, and the case was closed.
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The affidavit also states the group defrauded clients of their own employer by billing them for some of the bribes "while falsely representing those bribes to be legitimate expenses" of the proxy solicitor.
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It also alleges that Lula, who is already facing five corruption trials, received $50 million in bribes in offshore accounts from JBS, while Rousseff took $30 million in bribes, also in offshore accounts.
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Some officials demand bribes to allow the exports to flow.
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Some of the money may have been bribes to politicians.
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Receiving bribes can carry a sentence of life in jail.
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Arribas denies taking bribes or having any link to Odebrecht.
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Odebrecht has admitted to paying bribes connected to the project.
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Corporations and investors are often too willing to offer bribes.
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In Brazil, Odebrecht executives admitted to paying bribes within Mexico.
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Officials used to demand bribes from applicants for business permits.
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The probe has uncovered union officials accepting bribes and kickbacks.
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The bribes took place between 2011 and 2014, investigators said.
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His predecessor, Ehud Olmert, was imprisoned there for taking bribes.
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The bribes totaled 67.2 million reais ($17.22 million), they said.
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Many blamed a system that encourages bribes to avoid inspections.
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He said he did not have any proof of bribes.
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Overall, the bribes add up to more than the tolls.
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The bribes exceeded 2 million Egyptian pounds ($112,000), MENA said.
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Russia strongly denies it paid bribes to secure the tournament.
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He has been accused of stashing $40 million in bribes.
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And when permission was secured, it was sometimes through bribes.
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Bribes were offered to prisoners to incriminate their fellow inmate.
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In fact, many of the attempted bribes are on video.
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The charges involve at least 6.4 billion reais in bribes.
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Our company has this issue because we don't pay bribes.
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He's accused of taking bribes and trading influence for sex.
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"Gifts solely to cultivate friendship are not bribes," he said.
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With bribes and subterfuge, the works are smuggled back out.
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There's the corrupt Sheriff Cleave, whom Wilson bribes with hooch.
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Rarely does someone put in writing the need for bribes.
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Dozens of wealthy parents paid millions of dollars in bribes.
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He described paying huge bribes to police and military officials.
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Meanwhile, his subordinates continued to collect bribes from Salahi's family.
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Prosecutors said Odebrecht had an office dedicated to paying bribes.
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Generally you have to give bribes to get anything done.
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I do the best bribes, everyone says so — the best!
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One can corruptly abuse power without giving or receiving bribes.
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He has previously denied his client had taken any bribes.
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They don't want companies that don't want to pay bribes.
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He is accused of taking bribes in a corruption scandal.
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The other counts include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, extortion under color of official right, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, solicitation of bribes, payment of bribes and making false statements to federal officers.
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After a first trial that resulted in a deadlocked jury on most counts, Mr. Blagojevich was later convicted of felonies including wire fraud, soliciting bribes, attempted extortion and conspiracy to solicit and accept bribes.
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Mr. Percoco is accused of solicitation of bribes, conspiracy and other charges, and is being tried in Federal District Court in Manhattan alongside three co-defendants, executives with two companies accused of offering bribes.
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Even the employee who takes samples from the ship takes bribes.
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Analysts warned of huge bribes being paid in exchange for support.
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"Bribes, instead of merit, determine who is chosen," Mr Pei writes.
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Harow was under an unrelated investigation for money laundering and bribes.
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Cabbies in Yerevan say traffic police are afraid to demand bribes.
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Some of those bribes flowed through U.S. banks, the prosecutors said.
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He accepts he will have to pay bribes to the authorities.
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Villanueva testified last week that he took bribes from both men.
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Senior management often know when decisions are made to pay bribes.
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It said Liu Beixian had accepted bribes and abused his power.
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Most cops come in only to extort bribes from the brewers.
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Go deeper: "Money, bribes and basketball": The trial of Christian Dawkins
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But he said he did not consider them to be bribes.
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All the others are suspected of embezzlement, fraud or receiving bribes.
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Ejimkonye says he told them he would not pay any bribes.
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In the recordings, Batista can be heard talking about paying bribes.
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In opening statements Monday, their lawyers denied that they took bribes.
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All told, they say investigators uncovered about $25 million in bribes.
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Enforcement is uneven, and the police sometimes demand sex or bribes.
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They do so using a combination of killing, threats and bribes.
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Russian movies and novels are full of officials who take bribes.
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By spring 2012, Ms. Yan was passing bribes to Mr. Ashe.
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The probe found no evidence SAP paid bribes to government officials.
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Athletes and coaches offered him bribes to dispose of positive tests.
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Experts say the practice makes campaign contributions perilously close to bribes.
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The corruption scandal started as an inquiry into bribes at Petrobras.
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Schuler did not, however, plead guilty on Friday to paying bribes.
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The lawsuit says the payments to intermediaries were thinly-disguised bribes.
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That law prohibited American businesses from paying bribes to foreign officials.
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Hopefully, it could deter top officials from taking bribes yet again.
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Bribes and reward charts were more trouble than they were worth.
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He was accused of accepting $375,000 in bribes from two businessmen.
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A lot of my colleagues do take bribes from their patients.
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The bribes lined the pockets of health care officials across China.
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Keppel concealed the bribes by making payments to a consultant, who in turn facilitated the bribes by transferring money to bank accounts controlled by or for the benefit of the Brazilian officials, the charging papers said.
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Judge Silva wrote in his ruling that employees of some meatpackers, including BRF, arranged bribes and favors for inspectors ranging from political donations and favorable bank loans to small bribes including hams and other meat products.
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Instead of handing out bribes, they are making the mayors pay them.
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Was able to continue running the Sinaloa Cartel in prison through bribes.
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A new investigation into bribes in Greece was opened this past February.
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It said the bribes totalled more than 800 million roubles ($12.34 million).
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Samsung said it could not accept the accusations that Lee paid bribes.
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Lu Wei, once China's top internet regulator, was charged with taking bribes.
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It also mentioned potential bribes related to the acquisition of oil rigs.
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Uber isn't the first company to undergo scrutiny related to foreign bribes.
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It accused the firm of paying bribes to secure its Doraleh concession.
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He allegedly funneled bribes through his nonprofit organization, Key Worldwide Foundation ("KWF").
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After his presidency, he was investigated for money laundering and taking bribes.
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Takkas also drew up bogus contracts to conceal the bribes, they said.
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The organization also said PNG police had extorted bribes from some refugees.
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In June he accused Mr Temer of negotiating bribes and obstructing justice.
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Other Semlex emails show that company staff described some payments as bribes.
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Korkmaz said that he never saw evidence that Atilla had taken bribes.
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BSGR denied allegations it paid bribes or ordered others to do so.
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Getting this can take years of lobbying and, in some cases, bribes.
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The alleged bribes range from cash to prostitutes to extravagant vacations.—VICE
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Few would argue, for example, that the president can legally take bribes.
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Wang doled out construction projects in return for the bribes, it said.
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She denies that it refers to her, or that she received bribes.
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Zarrab said he paid Caglayan bribes amounting to more than $50 million.
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Some businesses in the U.S. are also being investigated for offering bribes.
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Guselnikov had more than a year ago accused Rimsevics of demanding bribes.
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Bribes, Dr. Briggs noted, are relatively easy, and many children know it.
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"One manager alone received bribes of a hundred million dollars!" he exclaimed.
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In those days cops came around for their bribes and nothing else.
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Odebrecht allegedly paid $33.5 million in bribes to secure contracts in Ecuador.
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That's the price for handing out more than $100 million in bribes.
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Aipac bribes Congress into twisting American foreign policy against the national interest.
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Russian families are often pressed to pay bribes to bury loved ones.
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Among the conspirators, "sandwich" was code for bribes or kickbacks, prosecutors said.
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The police stopped harassing and taking bribes from drivers on the roads.
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Over time, Mr. Casado received at least $50,000 in bribes, prosecutors said.
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Some took bribes to earn a living wage, undermining their patients' trust.
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But the lower-court ruling recognized only about $8 million as bribes.
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It has always been standard practice for these guys to take bribes.
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While this was happening, the riders conversed, swapped taunts and offered bribes.
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And he was accused several times of paying bribes or illegal commissions.
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It was not immediately clear who provided the alleged bribes to authorities.
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Netanyahu commits, together with the Prime Minister, a felony of taking bribes.
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In its impeachment motion, the National Assembly characterized the money as bribes.
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They said the bribes included a no-show job for Linda Mangano.
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Were they told that their direct donations to university departments were bribes?
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Parents who paid more in bribes should face harsher penalties, they argue.
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Thirty-six officials agreed to take bribes; the Minister of Defense resigned.
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He was arrested on suspicion of obstruction of justice and taking bribes.
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The bribes ranged between $520 and $5,500, said the US attorney's office.
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Read more about how the scheme worked, from bribes to doctored photos.
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Other businesses survive in a web of constant and increasingly costly bribes.
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CEO Marcelo Odebrecht was jailed for 21979 years in 2016 for paying bribes.
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The bribes were filtered through a charity that claimed to help underserved students.
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Prosecutors charged that Gross took bribes from Lebedev and the operator of Coin.
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Odebrecht SA allegedly paid $33.5 million in bribes to secure contracts in Ecuador.
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Paraguay is known for offering wealthy inmates "VIP" cells in exchange for bribes.
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And parents seemed to be happy with the thousands they paid in bribes.
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The worry is that high-level bribes will continue, hidden by money-launderers.
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Prosecutors have asserted that builders paid bribes to win contracts for Olympic venues.
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Access is through checkpoints manned by the army and CJTF, who demand bribes.
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He was also charged with allegedly taking bribes from a north Texas businessman.
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Most people have to pay bribes to doctors and nurses for basic treatments.
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Federal police say he signed a decree regulating ports in return for bribes.
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Port officials frequently demand bribes from the drugstore boss for importing beauty products.
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Allegations presently suggest Temer received or arranged more than $462.5 million in bribes.
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The company has admitted to paying nearly $30 million in bribes since 2004.
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He acknowledged maintaining occasional contact with members of the companies that paid bribes.
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Local councillors give jobs to cronies and award contracts in return for bribes.
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Businessmen complain that taxmen gouge them for bribes, not revenue for the state.
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In some cases, officials accept bribes in exchange for the Kimberley Process certification.
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He spent 16 months in jail for accepting bribes from real estate developers.
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Andrew Cuomo, Joseph Percoco, who allegedly sought and accepted over $300,000 in bribes.
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Both stand accused of receiving bribes to let drug traffickers operate in peace.
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In the tapes, JBS' Joesley Batista can be heard talking about paying bribes.
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The Nigerian says police shot him because he refused to pay them bribes.
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These journalists also said they take bribes because they simply need the money.
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PT officials were convicted of paying bribes to allies in an earlier scandal.
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On Thursday, Duterte accused de Lima of taking bribes from jailed drug lords.
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Och, whose firm paid millions of dollars in bribes to government officials in
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He said Trump's narrower definition of emoluments would essentially prohibit only outright bribes.
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Prosecutors said the bribes ranged from $20163,000 to $250,000, and included campaign contributions.
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Business people routinely complain of being asked by government officials to pay bribes.
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Calheiros has been accused of receiving bribes by defendants in the Petrobras investigation.
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The US government says Ng and Low also paid bribes to foreign officials.
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If urine samples come back dirty, athletes can pay bribes and results disappear.
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Rob Blagojevich, who's serving a 14-year sentence for corruption and soliciting bribes.
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Maybe this is an odd question, but why not just pay the bribes?
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In Russia, traffic rules exist largely to enable the police to collect bribes.
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Authorities are also investigating allegations that club officials provided bribes to police officers.
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But evidence has emerged suggesting that officials took bribes from China as well.
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"I didn't pay any bribes," Mr. Ferreyra said as he was being detained.
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People pay or accept bribes because they think everyone else is doing it.
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Kelly allegedly used bribes to get doctored documents that showed her as 18.
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" If American companies refused to give bribes, he said, "you'll do business nowhere.
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They offered bribes of $1,500 to those who would withdraw, some families said.
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The law generally prohibits American companies from paying bribes to secure contracts overseas.
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She bribes Dusty for a trip to Paris, in the ultimate scammer ouroboros.
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LIMA, Peru — A former Peruvian president is a fugitive, charged with taking bribes.
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But it remains rampant, with 51% of respondents admitting they had paid bribes.
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People can be downright chipper while still soliciting bribes and foreign election aid.
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As the scandal spread, the alleged bribes came to the attention of prosecutors.
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The businesses were accused of returning the favors with bribes and suspicious donations.
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"They just harass you and use that opportunity to demand bribes," said Chande.
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Those who can't pay the bribes have been sent back into harm's way.
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The bribes that Katrina Taylor-Parks, the woman who collapsed in court Jan.
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This is how the company managed to pay out $788 million in bribes.
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According to the Justice Department, the company made $163 million from those bribes.
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He also told the jury that he had paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Zafer Caglayan, then Turkey's economy minister, and additional bribes to Suleyman Aslan, the general manager of Halkbank, for help in facilitating the operation.
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The charges involve bribes paid to get players to sign with Adidas-sponsored schools, as well as bribes paid to assistant coaches in return for their promises to steer current players toward specific agents and money managers when they turn pro.
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The same court has already upheld Lula's conviction on taking bribes and money laundering.
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As matters stand, Aval is blaming Odebrecht for paying the bribes behind its back.
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Blagojevich was convicted on charges including wire fraud, extortion and soliciting bribes while governor.
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In return, Lu accepted bribes, either directly or through a third party, prosecutors said.
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He is also accused of using threats and bribes to silence his alleged victims.
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They now don't take bribes, and citizens who try to pay them face punishment.
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They emphasized the family-controlled company's institutionalized payment of bribes and sophisticated money laundering.
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Daniel said he pays bribes of $6.50 per migrant at every checkpoint in Guatemala.
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The contracts were scrapped by the Colombian government when an investigation uncovered alleged bribes.
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Toledo has denied taking bribes but is the target of an international arrest warrant.
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Singer also used bribes to get students in through the so-called side door.
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Triesman said Leoz requested to be knighted and Warner wanted £2.5 million in bribes.
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One legislative candidate, Gerald Jean, even kept receipts for all the bribes he paid.
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The bribes to police at checkpoints (which migrants must pay) have also risen sharply.
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A former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, went to prison last year for accepting bribes.
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Li added the intermediaries asked him to not tell the company about the bribes.
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Report: Daughter pocketed $1 billion in bribes Karimov was married with two adult daughters.
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Rio de Janeiro-based Interoil Representações Ltda also arranged bribes for Petrobras, police said.
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Turnout was low, despite bribes of food parcels for many who cast a ballot.
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Prosecutors were investigating allegations that he received bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company.
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Out of that must come rent plus the cost of DVDs and occasional bribes.
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He and an uncle were convicted of taking $14m in bribes from the company.
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According to the attorney general's office, Odebrecht's bribes in Colombia totaled about $30 million.
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The witnesses described alleged bribes from drug traffickers to President Hernandez and other officials.
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Temer has refuted allegations he took bribes from the head of meatpacking company JBS.
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Glas was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for government infrastructure contacts through intermediaries.
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Roads are controlled by numerous checkpoints at which, companies say, soldiers routinely demand bribes.
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Bribes were often tied to fraudulent contract extensions for the subway line, police said.
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Other defendants include inmates and their associates outside Rikers who helped arrange the bribes.
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The police, when they come in at all, do so mostly to demand bribes.
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Mr Hussein, for example, has been accused of taking bribes from the Turkish government.
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The wife, Jia Xiaoye, was given a nine-year sentence, also for taking bribes.
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Ugandans frequently swap stories of police who demand bribes, meaning some crimes go unreported.
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The Salt Lake Winter Olympics in 2002 was a festival of bribes and doping.
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A security officer was caught accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling foreigners through security.
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With political corruption, they have used cooperating witnesses to offer bribes to elected officials.
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Investigators found that several Pon employees had paid bribes, prosecutors said in the statement.
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Duke Cunningham accepted cash bribes for directing federal contracts via earmarks to military contractors.
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Banning kickbacks or bribes: Outlaw any fees paid for patient referrals in the industry.
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Our Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics were a bacchanalia of bribes, doping and corruption.
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Local officers, underpaid and poorly trained, are vulnerable to threats or bribes from gangs.
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According to that plea agreement, Francis paid about $500,000 in bribes to Navy officials.
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It doled out nearly $800 million in bribes to individuals between 2001 and 2016.
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Both pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to pay bribes to secure energy contracts.
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Both pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring to pay bribes to secure energy contracts.
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"In other countries we talk about petty bribes," said Ms. Dixon of Transparency International.
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With that said, parents should prepare for meltdowns (plural) in the form of bribes.
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Prosecutors say the former chief of Pimco paid bribes for at least four children.
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Other executives tied to Huarong have also been arrested on allegations of accepting bribes.
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Television contracts, bribes and kickbacks, are at the center of the United States investigation.
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Such shady practices make the chaebol easy prey for officials seeking bribes, analysts said.
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The bribes he received included goat meat, dog meat and deer meat, she said.
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He claims to have facilitated the bribes between Mr. Percoco and his co-defendants.
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The bribes often secured armed police escorts for shipments headed to the United States.
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Next year, he expects the number of regulators, and bribes, to fall sharply again.
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Odebrecht is accused of paying $33.5 million in bribes to secure contracts in Ecuador.
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The bribes Mr. Netanyahu is accused of receiving included puff pieces and pulled punches.
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An appeals court found that she collected more bribes from Samsung than previously believed.
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He had not been part of any conversations about bribes to influence his decision.
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Mr. Zuma has admitted attending that meeting, but denies that any bribes were offered.
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Mr. Lobo has denied receiving any bribes or having any association with drug traffickers.
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He's also accused of paying bribes to foreign officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi.
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Allegations of bribes and political kickbacks in the case have triggered protests across Brazil.
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According to the testimony, JBS paid Temer 15 million reais ($4.6 million) in bribes.
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But attracting genuine customers is tough, so some sellers use a reliable cheat — bribes.
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In reality, One Network bilks investors and maintains a far-reaching web of bribes.
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At the London Zoo, they do it very carefully — with patience, scales and bribes.
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Bribes were paid and taxis took narrow mountain roads to avoid armed conflict zones.
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A federal indictment charged that she took bribes from one of the electrical contractors.
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A Facebook worker reportedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to restore banned accounts.
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The culture of expediting care with petty bribes is notoriously hard to root out.
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Police say there is enough evidence to indict Mozes on charges of offering bribes.
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For one thing, Trump has not been accused of taking bribes as Park has.
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A spokesman for Defend Europe blamed the asylum requests on bribes from aid groups.
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There was talk of shady hotel room meetings, international gambling syndicates, and massive bribes.
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García, who was in trouble for allegedly accepting bribes, closed the door behind him.
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Additionally, the indictment alleges that both Clark and Kinsella engaged in other corruption, including Kinsella paying more than $640,000 in bribes to an official at another JFK terminal, and Clark receiving bribes — also laundered through the shell company — from another unnamed vendor.
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They also derailed criminal investigations through bribes and threats aimed at judges, prosecutors and witnesses.
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In 1997, the federal government's drug czar himself was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes.
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The Conservatives continue to flail around offering bribes one minute and defending austerity the next.
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Tellers, who are paid modest salaries, can be particularly vulnerable to bribes, security experts say.
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According to investigators, part of those bribes were then passed to Brazil's leftist Workers' Party.
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Cunha was found guilty of receiving up to $1.5 million dollars in bribes from Petrobras.
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In addition, he offered 10.57 million yuan in bribes to various people, the newspaper added.
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That's not all: Uber is apparently under the eyes of regulators curious about foreign bribes.
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He also claimed in a tweet that government agents approached his team twice with bribes.
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Prosecutors have not said Chinese officials knew of any bribes connected with South-South News.
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Elected officials are, however, now having a much easier time getting away with accepting bribes.
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"Well, bribes are a crucial part of the decision process," said checkpoint judge Dr. Inman.
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Nine Romanian politicians are accused of accepting $50m in bribes for dishing out software contracts.
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But his credibility was destroyed when he was taped apparently discussing bribes with a businessman.
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Residents believe it generates $5,000 per hour in bribes for the soldiers who man it.
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Prosecutors claim they paid upwards of $500k in bribes to get their daughters into USC.
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Blagojevich, 60, was convicted on charges including wire fraud, extortion and soliciting bribes while governor.
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The sources said prosecutors were investigating whether certain contracts hid bribes to Congo public officials.
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Bribes and graft, ranging from the petty to the stratospheric, are a fact of life.
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Those alleged bribes took all kinds of forms, including a $900,000 horse for Choi's daughter.
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He was accused of receiving about 1 million reais ($280,465) in bribes and contract kickbacks.
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Mexico's president's office denied any bribes by Odebrecht were funneled into Pena Nieto's 2012 campaign.
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Then Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm, admitted paying bribes totalling $29m to three Peruvian governments.
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Some advertising firms say they also paid the MQM bribes equal to the official fee.
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Top prosecutor Rodrigo Janot is expected to charge Temer with receiving bribes early next week.
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The bribes from a single company alone have been enough to give the region pause.
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Prosecutors in Germany separately investigated whether Airbus paid bribes to win the $2 billion contract.
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Prosecutors said he arranged bribes on behalf of Shanghai-based energy conglomerate CEFC China Energy.
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Those bribes were paid through two intermediaries, Lorenzo and Jeff Yin, Ng's assistant, prosecutors said.
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Even if no bribes are being paid, it can mean hassling politicians over long periods.
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A federal indictment (PDF) accused the town officials of taking thousands of dollars in bribes.
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The latest inquiry will also investigate whether politicians involved in the controversial deal took bribes.
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Mr. Lin was detained late Friday on suspicion of receiving bribes and abuse of power.
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"I have not demanded or received any bribes," Rimsevics told a news conference on Tuesday.
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Previous administrations have tried to wait, relying on mid-sized deals sweetened with small bribes.
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Sometimes he has to sleep in the desert to avoid police raids, bribes and beatings.
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Zuma himself was charged with corruption for allegedly taking bribes from a different, foreign company.
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"People who are taking bribes don't give these kinds of gifts in return," Lowell said.
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Where rent is extracted, bribes taken and rules bent social progress is likely to disintegrate.
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His bribes went to police officers and judges, but also to residents of the comunas.
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The defendants' lawyers said in their opening statements Monday that they did not take bribes.
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In 21954, Odebrecht admitted to paying $21973 million in bribes to secure the construction bid.
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Through threats and bribes, he had prison officials, from guards to directors, in his pocket.
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The party's graft watchdog said last year Zhang had abused his power and taken bribes.
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" Navalny's report claims this was all purchased through "bribes from oligarchs, and state bank loans.
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Burzaco said that several other media companies had paid bribes for TV rights as well.
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Water is scarce; it is mostly delivered through tankers, with delivery ensured only by bribes.
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There would always be individuals prepared to accept bribes, and others prepared to offer them.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, was found guilty of soliciting and accepting more than $26,000 in bribes.
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They were basically taking bribes — going on Caribbean vacations, for instance, hosted by pharma companies.
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I mean, if Clinton were taking bribes or murdering people, that would be one thing.
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This means petty stuff like bribes but also numerous very public high level corruption cases.
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President Warren Harding's interior secretary was caught leasing government oil reserves in return for bribes.
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In 2007 a third of the nine-member City Council pled guilty to receiving bribes.
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The cases involve allegations of receiving bribes, fraud, and breach of trust, according to police.
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Police revealed the suspicion of fraud, receiving bribes, and breach of trust in August 2017.
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In return, the restaurateur was said to have showered the officials with kickbacks and bribes.
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At the extreme end, the cost includes airfare to Tokyo and bribes to hotel concierges.
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The firm is accused of using free lodging as bribes to avoid investigation from authorities.
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Two people who worked on the Trump Tower Baku told me that bribes were paid.
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Two sons of Mr. Martinelli are wanted by Interpol over accusations that they accepted bribes.
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The statement slammed publications seeking bribes for negative stories, and the coverage's overall "racial undertones."
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Rather, they say, he was using the threat of prosecution to try to solicit bribes.
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He and his lawyers have denied that he paid bribes or committed any illegal activities.
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Two years ago, a former Guatemalan leader admitted to accepting Taiwanese bribes for diplomatic recognition.
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Some of those charges involve bribes paid to union officials by executives at Fiat Chrysler.
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But "if everyone around you is paying bribes, the cost-benefit tradeoff flips," he continued.
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Odebrecht did not immediately respond to request for comment about the alleged bribes to Humala.
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Prosecutors had accused the senator of accepting bribes from Melgen in return for political favors.
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"I have not demanded or received any bribes," Rimsevics told reporters at a press conference.
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Lin admitted to accepting bribes in a video last month, Xinhua said late on Thursday.
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His mother visited him twice, paying bribes to do so, but then the permissions stopped.
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The files included information about bribes from Mr. Gorrín to government officials, Mr. Carvajal said.
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Reports indicate she took bribes from Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions.
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The amount Huffman paid is relatively low compared to other bribes alleged in the scheme.
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Salespeople inflated prices for equipment to fund bribes and kickbacks, the Chinese court documents show.
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Officials believe he illegally took bribes to put student athletes in touch with financial advisors.
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SAO PAULO, May 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court released plea-bargain testimony on Friday that includes accusations President Michel Temer received 15 million reais ($4.6 million) in bribes in 2014 before he took office from executives of meatpacking giant JBS SA. The testimony also claims former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received $50 million in bribes in offshore accounts from JBS, while ex-President Dilma Rousseff took $30 million in bribes in offshore accounts.
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THE BOTTOM LINE According to the police, Mr. Netanyahu should be charged with accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust in relation to Mr. Milchan and only the latter two crimes in connection with Mr. Packer, and Mr. Milchan should be charged with giving bribes.
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Peru's four most recent presidents are under investigation in connection with alleged bribes paid by Odebrecht.
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"In short: Money from bribes circulate through various places to return laundered to Panama," she said.
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Two of the bankers said they themselves had taken bribes to smooth the approval of loans.
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Lee had been charged with giving some of the bribes that Choi was accused of receiving.
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They could have quietly accepted bribes to render a verdict in favor of president Peter Mutharika.
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Gertler has long denied paying bribes and says his investments have contributed to Congo's economic development.
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In that scandal, some rich and famous people paid bribes to get their kids into college.
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Duke Cunningham survived corruption scandals before finally going to jail for receiving $2.3 million in bribes.
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Aécio Neves, its presidential candidate in 2014, has been charged with seeking bribes (which he denies).
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Cops are unwilling to go in, except occasionally to extract bribes or to shoot a suspect.
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Prosecutors say those gifts were actually bribes to persuade Menendez to press Melgen's interests in Washington.
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"Samsung has not paid bribes nor made improper requests seeking favors," a spokesperson tells The Verge.
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She went on trial this week accused of taking bribes for government contracts when in power.
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Under earlier bosses it was the conduit for enormous bribes paid by construction companies to politicians.
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If top Odebrecht executives turn state's witnesses, they could implicate scores of politicians who took bribes.
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Bribes, and the proceeds of unregistered trade in legal goods, such as cigarettes, probably should, too.
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America has offered massive bribes in return for freezes that were undermined by cheating each time.
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All three appellate court judges voted to uphold Lula's convictions on taking bribes and money laundering.
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Duke Cunningham survived corruption scandals before finally going to jail for receiving $103 million in bribes.
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A nationwide college admissions scandal uncovered bribes and phony SAT scores paid for by wealthy parents.
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In 1995, he was accused of taking bribes from top businessmen during his term as president.
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Batista, one of J&F's owners, has in turn accused President Temer of accepting bribes himself.
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Ecuador's vice president was sentenced to a jail term for receiving bribes related to the company.
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The jury heard evidence guards had beat inmates and accepted bribes to help smuggle in contraband.
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The electoral court is investigating allegations that bribes were funnelled towards Ms Rousseff's campaign in 2014.
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Elsewhere, Brazilian President Michel Temer allegedly authorized bribes to silence a witness in a corruption scandal.
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Unlike Toledo, Humala is not accused of taking bribes from Odebrecht in exchange for lucrative contracts.
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A U.S. Department of Justice press release on Tuesday said that Gorrin paid bribes to Andrade.
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Critics says oligarchs control vast wealth, investors are routinely ripped off, and public officials take bribes.
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Ms Saguto, who denies wrongdoing, is accused of accepting bribes and favours that influenced her decisions.
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The son, Zhou Bin, was imprisoned for 18 years for taking 222m yuan ($33.7m) in bribes.
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Minibus drivers frustrated by the mushrooming of roadblocks where police demand bribes have also protested violently.
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Unlike many Brazilian politicians, Ms. Rousseff isn't accused of taking bribes or trading cash for favors.
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Kuti, the county governor, denied allegations that officials are accepting bribes in exchange for title deeds.
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That's why at bottom this scandal is a moral one far more insidious than parent bribes.
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The bribes included discounts on cars, Mediterranean cruises and trips to Greece, Finland, Russia and Iceland.
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It arguably benefited as much as the Workers' Party from huge bribes and illicit campaign financing.
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Terry Spicer (D) admitted to accepting bribes while in office, including $22,000 in free concert tickets.
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The announcement from the court did not specify how much General Guo had taken in bribes.
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Many senior politicians were named in documents seized at the company's offices as apparently receiving bribes.
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The planemaker created false books and records to cover up the bribes, according to the SEC.
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U.S. federal prosecutors said one former Venezuela national treasurer admitted to taking $1 billion in bribes.
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Prosecutors said Frey also accepted bribes from a pharmacy's sales representative to prescribe compounded pain creams.
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They installed millions of phone lines, and curtailed the common practice of repairmen asking for bribes.
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They also allegedly paid bribes to city officials once the firms were paid for their work.
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He took exceptionally large bribes and ran illegal for-profit business, it added, among other accusations.
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Prosecutors say company officials paid billions in bribes over several years in return for bloated contracts.
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In Brazil, Odebrecht has admitted to paying bribes in several countries in Latin America, including Mexico.
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President Pena Nieto has also previously denied Odebrecht bribes made their way into his party's coffers.
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"Pay Trump Bribes Here" was projected onto the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., late Monday night.
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We're told if the students knew they were admitted because of bribes, they will be expelled.
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Prosecutors charged that Lebedev helped arrange bribes to Gross, including $150,000 in donations to his church.
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Herman Benjamin voted to annul the 2014 Rousseff-Temer ticket for accepting bribes and illegal donations.
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One, for allegedly taking bribes, was blocked by the lower house of Congress in early August.
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Corporations around the world pay somewhere between $400 billion and $1 trillion a year in bribes.
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Government workers have long demanded bribes in order to obtain official documents needed for buying property.
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The emails suggest that the Brazilians did not pay bribes as promptly as they had promised.
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Investigators said General Zhang had given and taken bribes and had huge amounts of unexplained wealth.
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Mr. Zarrab also said he had paid Mr. Caglayan tens of millions of dollars in bribes.
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In 2004, Israel's state attorney recommended that Mr. Sharon be indicted on charges of taking bribes.
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Mr. Percoco was found guilty of three corruption-related counts, including conspiracy and solicitation of bribes.
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The prime minister is under indictment for charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes.
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His successor, James Usry, the city's first black mayor, took bribes and broke campaign-finance law.
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Paying bribes is a shortcut for the wealthy in Russia, he said, but also a trap.
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In exchange for this intervention, Braskem paid more than $20 million in bribes, the S.E.C. said.
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Douglas Hodge, the former chief of Pimco, paid bribes for at least four children, prosecutors say.
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Philadelphia's 31 hospitals were full and turning away patients, who offered huge bribes to get in.
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The company indicated that more than 60 federal agricultural food inspectors had benefited from the bribes.
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The bribes ranged from $100,000 to $250,2000 in cash, campaign contributions and mortgage discharges, officials said.
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The bribes ranged from $100,000 to $250,2000 in cash, campaign contributions and mortgage discharges, officials said.
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He eliminated wasteful spending and fired corrupt tax assessors for collecting personal bribes instead of taxes.
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Wealthy businessmen and officials were purchasing elaborate carvings as luxurious gifts or, in some cases, bribes.
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Those bribes were routed to accounts he controlled at banks in the United States, he said.
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According to the release, Garcia Luna received millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
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But he denied prosecutors' allegations that he was lying to conceal bribes, violating money-laundering laws.
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The company paid some $30 million in bribes in Colombia, according to the attorney general's office.
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In New Jersey, Arnaldo Echevarria was convicted on charges of extracting bribes from people facing deportation.
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I have been offered bribes for this and I have been sanctioned because of my integrity.
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She denied charges of taking bribes from imprisoned drug traffickers, and called the move political persecution.
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Gregg Schonhorn, another broker-dealer whom prosecutors said paid bribes, was charged in related court papers.
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But more than 10 Somali elders said in interviews that they had paid or received bribes.
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The price of the parents' bribes is therefore not relevant to any sentences, the office argued.
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"Samsung has not paid bribes nor made improper requests seeking favors," it said in a statement.
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It accused Vietnamese officials of taking bribes from smugglers to allow the timber to appear legitimate.
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The company was fined nearly eight times the value of the alleged bribes of $55 million.
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Two years ago, a former Guatemalan leader admitted to accepting bribes from Taiwan for diplomatic recognition.
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During the trial, nearly every level of Mexican government was implicated in bribes, including the presidency.
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There was the light rail line that prosecutors say was built with $8 million in bribes.
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He also said lawmakers told him directly that Mr. Maduro's loyalists had offered them the bribes.
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The SEC on Monday said SAP's deficient internal controls enabled Vicente Garcia, a former vice president of global and strategic accounts responsible for Latin America sales, to pay $145,000 in bribes to a top Panamanian official and offer bribes to two others in exchange for the contracts.
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It was also deeply corrupt and patrimonial with private interests coursing through it using bribes and patronage.
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A judge barred Mr García from leaving the country while prosecutors investigate allegations that he took bribes.
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In a statement, Mr Martínez said that Mr Pizano could not confirm that those payments were bribes.
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He admitted during his trial on Thursday taking bribes and gifts worth 28.5 million yuan ($4.1 million).
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That same week, Latvian authorities said their central bank chief, Ilmars Rimsevics, was suspected of taking bribes.
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He allegedly took bribes through his sports marketing company to sell rights for Brazilian National Team games.
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Prosecutors in Germany have also been investigating whether Airbus issued bribes to win the $2 billion contract.
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According to the attorney general's office, bribes paid by Odebrecht in Colombia amount to some $30 million.
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The bribes included a $2,500-per-month job for Ashe's wife at South-South News, prosecutors said.
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The company admitted to paying bribes in 12 mostly Latin American countries including $35 million in Argentina.
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Between 2011 and 2018, about $25 million in bribes were allegedly paid to the coaches and administrators.
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"Most of the time bribes involve booze, and...I'm much nicer when I'm a little bit drunk."
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Stephen Semprevivo and Devin Sloane were each sentenced to four months in prison for paying these bribes.
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Executives said the president took bribes to resolve tax matters and facilitate loans from state-run banks.
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He also is accused of accepting bribes while working on a 2010 law that regulates mining concessions.
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There were bribes to cross checkpoints, price-gouging and regular merchants jacking up prices for scarce supplies.
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The road north is also dotted with checkpoints, where armed groups, including al-Qaeda, demand heavy bribes.
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According to G1, prosecutors allege the headquarters had also been paying bribes to operate without a license.
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Joe Percoco, the governor's enforcer and right-hand man, was also convicted this year for accepting bribes.
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It alleged prison officials accepted bribes to smuggle in contraband like cell phones, cigarettes and even televisions.
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Fox had a 75% stake in T&T at the time many of those bribes were signed.
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Days after his wife reported him missing, Chinese authorities said he was being investigated for taking bribes.
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The plea deal did not name the officials who took bribes in Peru or the projects involved.
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He escaped two years later after allegedly paying bribes totaling up to $14 million to local officials.
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In exchange, Silver raked in as much as $4 million in bribes and kickbacks, prosecutors have claimed.
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Too much building still happens in flood-prone areas, largely because officials take bribes to allow it.
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He would sometimes be on the pier when the ship pulled in to offer bribes right away.
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Pemex's chief executive at the time, Emilio Lozoya, has been questioned by Mexican prosecutors about Odebrecht bribes.
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Three years ago it exposed corruption in Ghana's judiciary with hidden-camera footage showing judges taking bribes.
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I had to monitor him constantly to stop him from picking fights, insulting strangers, and accepting bribes.
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He said it would give 75m rand every year in bribes to ANC politicians and affiliated officials.
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A third, Alejandro Toledo, who allegedly took $20m in bribes, is resisting extradition from the United States.
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Keiko was arrested for taking bribes from Odebrecht in October and sentenced to 36 months pretrial detention.
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After both Nixon (Watergate scandal) and Spiro Agnew (bribes) resigned, Gerald Ford took the helm as POTUS.
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It is possible for the well-connected to pay bribes rather than taxes, says the Abuja hotelier.
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Now he faces charges of obstruction of justice and criminal organization for allegedly receiving bribes from JBS.
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He says he was repeatedly asked for bribes when he tried to get a public sector job.
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She and a longtime friend were accused of collecting or demanding large bribes from three big businesses.
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A former Gunvor employee said he paid bribes to win contracts, according to a Swiss prosecution document.
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That, according to current perceptions cited in The Times article, created incentives to give and receive bribes.
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People reported paying bribes as well for medical services, identity documents, permits, electricity and water, it said.
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"Any suggestion that Fox Sports knew of or approved of any bribes is emphatically false," she said.
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Those bribes included over $800,000 from three businessmen that were arranged through Yan and Piao, prosecutors said.
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In March 2014, Olmert was convicted of receiving about $161,000 in bribes related to the housing project.
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The two men will be charged with money laundering and taking bribes, according to a police statement.
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Burzaco said in court that Fox was told about bribes paid to soccer officials by T&T.
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Prosecutors had accused them of paying around $8 million in bribes to officials in India and Libya.
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Silver got rich on bribes and kickbacks from individuals and companies doing business with New York state.
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Bribes are a constant challenge, particularly because drug profits allow criminals to pay more than the state.
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The hospital's security guards, claiming they had not been paid in months, stood by, enforcing the bribes.
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We long for a disciplinarian, but meanwhile we squabble among ourselves, willingly pay bribes and flout rules.
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It's all the conflicts — and, conceivably, bribes, insider trading, and other illicit activity — that we can't see.
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These are important in a gun-mad country where being asked for bribes is a daily frustration.
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Petrobras acknowledged last year that at least $1.7 billion of its revenue had been diverted to bribes.
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Such transactions are often referred to as "bribes", but are really a form of extortion with menaces.
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But the S.E.C. added that neither Mr. Och nor Mr. Frank knew that bribes would be paid.
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Andrew M. Cuomo's executive deputy secretary, is accused of soliciting and taking more than $315,000 in bribes.
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Och-Ziff's Africa unit pleaded guilty to paying more than $100 million in bribes to African officials.
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Andrew M. Cuomo's executive deputy secretary, is accused of soliciting and taking more than $53,000 in bribes.
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The bribes were arranged by Mr. Howe, who counted both companies among his clients, the complaint said.
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In 2126, it famously busted several politicians who had taken bribes during an undercover operation called ABSCAM.
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It is not yet known how much of that may have been bribes or legal campaign contributions.
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Last June, Alves resigned as President Michel Temer's tourism minister after accusations that he had taken bribes.
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The bribes allegedly bought the Murgios access to the credit union, which they used to evade detection.
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They said the bribes included a $2,500-per-month job at South-South News for Ashe's wife.
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That threat of arrest allows North Korean officials to extort money and other bribes, the report says.
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Awerbuch pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and health care fraud and has been sentenced to jail time.
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But Russians were there during an election, offering bribes, spreading disinformation and recruiting an apocalyptic cult leader.
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Percoco is accused of taking bribes from contractors in exchange for helping them deal with the state.
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Odebrecht has admitted to U.S. and Brazilian prosecutors that it paid $10.5 million in bribes in Mexico.
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He faces charges of taking as much as $40 million in bribes for himself and his allies.
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In addition, we have deferred bribes to government officials that clearly affect their decisions while in office.
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The next after him, Senate President Renan Calheiros, is under investigation on suspicion of taking Petrobras bribes.
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Some of the laundered funds were then allegedly used to pay bribes to obtain business for Goldman.
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He is also accused of accepting bribes in exchange for helping The Community's criminal SIM swapping activities.
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Those bribes helped Traffic secure lucrative media and marketing contracts, including the rights to major international tournaments.
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For other countries, disclosing government payments by oil, gas, and coal companies is aimed at detecting bribes.
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They arranged for bribes to scores of people to travel to the community to register to vote.
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Voters were subject to bribes, blandishments and threats in an effort to get them to the polls.
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It downplayed the significance of the December indictments, saying they relate to alleged bribes paid years ago.
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In Brazil the Lava Jato investigation has exposed bribes paid by industrial firms to scores of politicians.
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But apparently, when you're trying to win a campaign, prostitutes, bribes and spies work pretty well too.
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All told, he now faces six counts, including solicitation of bribes, conspiracy and another count of extortion.
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A government computer generates a random inspection cycle, making it harder for inspectors to demand regular bribes.
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Conditions back home can be so desperate that some North Koreans pay bribes to get these jobs.
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The scale of the bribes that Mr. Zarrab said he paid the former minister drew bitter jokes.
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In 2017, two finance ministry officials were arrested on suspicion of demanding and accepting bribes from Dongsong.
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Individuals in the agencies did not take bribes — it was the perverse incentives that corrupted the institutions.
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They got away with it, the Justice Department charges, because coaches went along with it, accepting bribes.
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"Pay Trump Bribes Here," read one, with an arrow pointing perfectly to the entrance to the hotel.
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Reuters was unable to determine whether any bribes were actually made or who made the December calls.
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In some cases, they took the bribes from employers in exchange for accepting concessions during contract talks.
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Liu Zhijun, the former railway minister, is serving a lifetime sentence for taking bribes and abusing power.
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The prosecutor said all three are suspected of taking bribes and abusing their positions for personal advantage.
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"They don't change anything, they don't learn anything — they keep asking for bribes," Mr. Molon told reporters.
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"Now, he is asking us for bribes to allow us to use the park," Mr. Mostaghim said.
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The company told U.S. and Brazilian prosecutors that it paid bribes amounting to $10 million in Mexico.
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Arzuaga said he helped transfer the bribes by setting up accounts at two banks where he worked.
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They instead make the programs look like bribes to politicians who agree to speak less about elections.
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According to a court document, Odebrecht disbursed the bribes from 2006 to 2013 to Angolan government officials.
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Ericsson used third parties to pay bribes to government officials to secure and keep business, authorities said.
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In India alone, where the platform was first created, over 160,000 bribes have been reported to date.
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Some of the federal criminal charges involve bribes paid to union officials by executives at Fiat Chrysler.
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"Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honeytraps'," the firm added.
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They went on to emphasize how vulnerable the people were that the two men accepted bribes from.
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The contracts were scrapped by the Colombian government when an investigation uncovered bribes had allegedly been paid.
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They also accused Kelly of obstructing justice by using threats and bribes to keep his victims quiet.
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To get a typical government construction commission, he explained, you pay 6 percent in bribes up front.
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Zarrab said he paid bribes to Aslan, repeating his testimony in direct examination, but never to Atilla.
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As unanimous consent was required for the approval of any transaction, holdouts and bribes soon became commonplace.
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And here's a reminder why paying bribes to get your child into college is a federal crime.
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Soon all manner of sordid news was pouring out: bribes, kickbacks, drinking on the bench, love affairs.
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Witnesses testified about delivering bribes to all levels of law enforcement, government, and the military in Mexico.
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Several of the coaches accused of accepting bribes have been fired, placed on leave or have resigned.
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Seaview executed advantageous fuel trades on their behalf, and it routed bribes through offshore accounts, authorities said.
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But such smuggling is costly: fees and bribes must be paid out at checkpoints to ensure delivery.
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Last month, two relatively minor figures in the investigation, a Guatemalan lawyer who took roughly $270,2000 in bribes for handing over rights to World Cup qualifier matches, and a British citizen who helped a high-ranking official from the Cayman Islands launder millions of dollars in bribes, were sentenced.
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The Chinese businessman, Ng Lap Seng, paid more than $500,000 in bribes to Ashe, according to the complaint.
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Some teachers, having paid bribes to be hired in the first place, treat the job as a sinecure.
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The statement did not specify what types of goods were smuggled or the value of the alleged bribes.
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Williams was charged in a 23-count indictment in March with accepting the bribes as well as fraud.
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Milan prosecutors allege bribes totalling around $1.1 billion were paid to win the licence to explore the field.
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Park was impeached in December on accusations she colluded with a friend to collect bribes from big conglomerates.
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Munich prosecutors have been investigating whether Airbus issued bribes to win the $2 billion contract: charges it denies.
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Brazilian police said in February that they were investigating potential bribes of $3 million from Odebrecht to Humala.
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The report says most of the bribes were paid through a "sham contract" with a Singapore-based company.
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The state prosecutor last month charged Ling with taking bribes, illegally obtaining state secrets and abuse of power.
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Some parents were found to have paid bribes to have the SAT taken by others for their children.
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Shin said Gross accepted bribes including a $150,000 church donation in exchange for helping unlicensed bitcoin exchange Coin.
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No matter how sophisticated the technology is, they say, there are always workarounds such as bribes and tunnels.
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"And yes, I bribe them with things, but I don't always follow through with my bribes," she adds.
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"They have committed illicit actions in exchange for bribes through the use of several public bodies," prosecutors said.
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State investigators said they were looking into allegations that bribes were paid to officials in Russia's Komi region.
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Amazon is notoriously plagued by fake reviews and is investigating incidents of employees taking bribes to delete reviews.
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Federal prosecutors have accused her of spending $500,000 in illegal bribes to get her two daughters into USC.
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In the past, FIFA and its leadership thrived in a culture of lined pockets, skimmed contracts and bribes.
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In 2005, Cunningham pleadedguilty to accepting $2.4 million in bribes, making him arguably the mostcrooked congressman in history.
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In 2017, Rondon was arrested by Dominican authorities and charged with corruption for the bribes paid by Odebrecht.
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The FBI informant had all the evidence of bribes and kickbacks and money laundering and he did nothing.
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Walker paid kickbacks and bribes to Barber in exchange for referrals to perform the surgeries, according to prosecutors.
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Among the evidence provided were thousands of wiretaps of officials in their government apparently agreeing to distribute bribes.
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He had been accused of receiving bribes, funnelled through his wife and other relatives, from a wealthy shoemaker.
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The company also told U.S. and Brazilian prosecutors that it paid bribes amounting to $10 million in Mexico.
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The account was the same one Odebrecht executives said in testimony that they used to pay Lozoya bribes.
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"It is suspected that Dutch corporate entities were used on a large scale to facilitate bribes," they said.
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The company is dealing with the fallout from an international bribes-for-contracts scandal unearthed by Brazilian prosecutors.
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The company has also agreed to pay Panama $59 million and Colombia $32 million in reparations for bribes.
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Internal emails reveal that Unaoil paid its largest bribes to two Iraqi officials code-named M and Teacher.
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Instead, Low is accused of paying bribes to officials and attempting to launder billions stolen from the fund.
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The EFCC has also charged a former petroleum ministry official with accepting bribes and failing to follow protocol.
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" Lai helped "officials in that faction identify other officials in the AFC to whom they should offer bribes.
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Critics say the longer he delays calling the legislature, the more allegations of defections and bribes will emerge.
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In January, he survived a criminal trial for accepting bribes after the jury failed to return a verdict.
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Gregg Schonhorn, a broker-dealer at FTN Financial Securities Corp, secretly pleaded guilty to paying bribes on Dec.
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Prosecutors allege that Hodge paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for his daughters' admission to USC.
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The offers are, "let's face it, the equivalent of bribes," the L.A. Times' Michael Hiltzik wrote last month.
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Harris even forged emails that appeared to be from the Middle Eastern official demanding bribes, the indictment said.
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Andrade received bribes from brokerages to sell dollar-denominated bonds on behalf of the government, the documents say.
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Lorenzo was accused of facilitating bribes from Chinese businessmen to the former president of the U.N. General Assembly.
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Milan prosecutors allege bribes totaling around $1.1 billion were paid to win the license to explore the field.
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In Kenya, managers claim that demands for bribes are soaring ahead of a general election due next year.
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Romania's parliament spent much of 2015 refusing to lift the immunity of an MP accused of taking bribes.
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"The police harass people, ask for money, and confiscate refugees' cards unless they are paid bribes," he added.
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He is accused of having received a total of at least $10,000 in bribes, according to city officials.
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What allowed that to happen is "a pretty well-known system of bribes and corruption," Mr. Terrell said.
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He has been accused of taking many, many bribes to cover up positive doping tests by Russian athletes.
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In the court documents, prosecutors said "Broadcasting Company Executive #1" helped pay the bribes to the FIFA official.
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It is estimated that $700 million is being paid in bribes at land registrars across India, Chowdary said.
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Nickerson said people have offered him bribes to move up the list, "but it's not fair," he said.
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Some players were motivated to take bribes because they were upset with their low salaries; others felt threatened.
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And the charges contained within were as ugly as they come in government work: bribes, extortion, fraud, conspiracy.
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The former head of the national oil company has been accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes.
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Prosecutors said funds for the bribes came largely from Ng Lap Seng, a real estate developer from Macau.
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Sérgio Cabral, the former governor who helped land the Olympics, has been accused of demanding millions in bribes.
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In 1977 Mr. Kiarostami made his first feature-length film, "Report," about a tax collector who takes bribes.
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"If there was a conspiracy to solicit bribes, it doesn't matter whether the solicitation was accepted," he explained.
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Wzorek said Pawlowski solicited bribes to fund his expected 2016 Senate campaign against incumbent Pat Toomey, a Republican.
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He has denied taking bribes from Odebrecht and said he was the victim of an unfair judicial process.
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He also said Li lied under oath about the bribes when questioned by the SEC and destroyed evidence.
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Nuzman is accused of arranging more than $2 million in bribes to get the IOC to pick Rio.
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The indictment said Rincon, 55, and Shiera conspired to pay bribes to officials to secure contracts from PDVSA.
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Democratic politicians could be charged if they reviewed evidence of alleged bribes or quid pro quos by Trump.
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The third in line, Senate President Renan Calheiros, is also under investigation — on suspicion of taking Petrobras bribes.
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In Lagos the state government's "Kick Against Indiscipline" enforcement team demands weekly bribes from long-suffering roadside vendors.
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Toledo has previously denied any involvement in bribes and said this week that he was cooperating with authorities.
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Most of its bribes were paid to get contracts from governments to build roads, bridges, dams and highways.
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Documents and ear tattoos were altered, bribes were pocketed, and the impostor came in at 30 to 1.
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"Any suggestion that Fox Sports knew of or approved of any bribes is emphatically false," the statement said.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, who stands accused of an array of charges, including conspiracy, extortion and solicitation of bribes.
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Western companies have also signed off on deals involving third-party contractors who paid bribes and sought kickbacks.
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The government has charged another former Goldman banker, Roger Ng, with conspiring to launder money and pay bribes.
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Mr. Hynes also won the convictions of two State Supreme Court justices for taking bribes to fix cases.
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But within two years, according to evidence at Mr. Guzmán's trial, the lawman was already accepting cartel bribes.
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Eliezer Merom, the former commander of Israel's navy, who the police said had received about $160,000 in bribes.
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He was booed, because of a rumor that he had been offering bribes to sway votes against impeachment.
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Neither McKinsey nor Boeing was charged in the case, and Boeing has not been accused of paying bribes.
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Four U.S.C. athletics officials are charged with taking bribes, more than the number named at any other school.
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In the end, the jury found Mr. Mangano not guilty of receiving bribes in connection with those contracts.
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Bribes are rampant; the election commission has already seized billions of rupees and millions of liters of liquor.
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He has denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyer says there is no hard evidence that he accepted bribes.
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Mr. Kim is a proud leader who does not want to appear vulnerable or susceptible to economic bribes.
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An executive from a big construction firm testified that he had given $5 million in bribes to Paes.
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Politicians described being summoned to the Gupta compound and offered ministerial jobs and, on occasion, multimillion-dollar bribes.
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Mr. Skelos is charged with soliciting bribes, extortion under the color of official right and honest services fraud.
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American prosecutors had accused him of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for sports marketing contracts.
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He admitted he had taken bribes and said he would not contest any sentence less than 57 months.
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Loughlin and Giannulli say that they didn't realize they paid tens of thousands of dollars in illicit bribes.
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They have accused him of paying $38 million in bribes to maintain control of Samsung without paying taxes.
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"Donations that were received and welcomed by universities have never before been characterized as bribes," Mr. Weinberg said.
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Offenses included: selling a castle, accepting bribes to release captured ships, and failing to properly guard the sea.
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The bribes, in the form of $50,000 in campaign contributions, were received between February 2013 and mid-2014.
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You can avoid this by traveling with a smuggler, who bribes the checkpoint bureaucrats to skip the lines.
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In exchange, they're said to have gotten kickbacks and bribes like a massage chair and free limousine rides.
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A top Chinese banker confessed to taking bribes after $29 million in cash was found in his apartment.
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Instead, for many years, he demanded and accepted bribes – and in return, he sold out his union members.
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In 2007, a former Democratic speaker of the House, Jim Black, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from chiropractors.
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Earlier this week, a lead prosecutor said the attorney general's office was investigating Graña's involvement in Odebrecht's bribes.
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According to the attorney general's office, bribes paid in Colombia by Odebrecht amount to more than $27 million.
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Bureaucrats are banned from calling on small businesses, which they previously did constantly, to bully them for bribes.
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Teak traders have paid bribes to county governments, the military, and rebel groups for protection, the report found.
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Businessmen convicted of paying bribes and kickbacks in the so-called Car Wash corruption scandal were also freed.
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The donations, Mr. Navalny said, were bribes and the network an elaborate scheme to disguise Mr. Medvedev's ownership.
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A Chinese court in September jailed the former Tianjin mayor, Huang Xingguo, for 12 years for accepting bribes.
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Brazilian police said last month that they were investigating potential bribes of $3 million from Odebrecht to Humala.
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Two years ago, a former Guatemalan leader admitted to accepting bribes from Taiwan in exchange for diplomatic recognition.
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The interlocking power structures of violence, bribes, threats and patronage make everyday life extremely dangerous for Central Americans.
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Two former Peruvian presidents also face charges of accepting bribes, with one in jail and another at large.
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Mr. Burga was charged with racketeering conspiracy and accused of having plotted to collect $4.4 million in bribes.
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The jury found Mr. Reichberg not guilty on one count — that he had paid bribes to Mr. Grant.
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An Indian government investigation showed that the company paid bribes there where it built a major hydroelectric dam.
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"Bribes and corruption keep people in poverty, they encourage inequality and undercut citizens' faith in government" said Tillerson.
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Ms. Heinel received more than $1.3 million in bribes and Mr. Vavic about $250,000 according to federal prosecutors.
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The ex-president was accused of money laundering and taking bribes, accusations unearthed in a massive corruption scandal.
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Young people first encounter corruption at high school in the form of bribes to teachers for good grades.
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"[Singer] offered a variety of cheating options as part of a widespread conspiracy to enrich himself while also facilitating cheating on SAT and ACT exams, recruiting applicants on the competitive athletic teams in exchange for bribes and concealing the nature and source of those bribes," Lelling said during the news conference.
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Sandoval recounts a conversation that he had with one agent who told him, "My job includes the responsibility of collecting a certain amount of money via bribes, and to report and send this up my command," essentially bureaucratizing bribes for the ant trade as part and parcel of the Mexican state.
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A former Treasury permanent secretary noted that the DUP had "previous" when it came to extracting bribes from Westminster.
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The bribes, worth 2 percent of the contracts, were paid to civil servants, financial operators and politicians, investigators said.
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Israel's biggest company allegedly paid bribes into the hundreds of millions and falsified documents in order to hide them.
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The SEC charged Walmart under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits companies from paying bribes to foreign officials.
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Milan prosecutors alleged bribes were paid to win the licence to explore the field which never entered into production.
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In related documents, prosecutors said "other employees and agents" of the bank had known about bribes related to 1MDB.
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Local cops, however, are more interested in bribes, which César factors into his costs along with pesticides and labor.
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According to prosecutors, Siri was caught on a wire tap discussing the bribes with a businessman named Paolo Arata.
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A federal judge in that case also rejected Trump's narrow view that emoluments were limited essentially to outright bribes.
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Low-level bureaucrats, eager to preserve both their importance and, sadly, their bribes, could also gum up the works.
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Clocking in late, chatting with colleagues, accepting small bribes from taxpayers (most favored: quail), a regular salary — that's life!
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The police recommended that Sara Netanyahu be indicted for taking bribes, fraud, breach of trust and obstruction of justice.
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The police recommended that Sarah Netanyahu be indicted for taking bribes, fraud, breach of trust and obstruction of justice.
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The IAAF itself has also been beset by corruption allegations regarding the taking of bribes to cover up doping.
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Allegations of police planting jihadist magazines on suspects, or demanding bribes to make the charges go away, are common.
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His first feature film was 1977's "Report," about the life of a tax collector accused of accepting bribes.
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Some of those tapes capture defendants brazenly discussing bribes and how they could be paid without leaving a trace.
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Italian prosecutors said the "Sonatrach II" case involved millions of euros in bribes paid for Saipem to Algerian officials.
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Absolutely—while my first day was a write-off, of the other six bribes I tried, four worked out.
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The prosecuting judge now suspects Takeda of paying bribes to secure the winning bid, a judicial source told Reuters.
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On February 17th Latvia's anti-corruption authority detained him on suspicion of demanding bribes of at least €100,000 ($123,000).
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The police are corrupt, known to take bribes, and have been implicated in working with narco-traffickers and gangs.
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Officials for the Brazilian construction firm have admitted to paying $800 million in bribes to politicians throughout Latin America.
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Details: Takeda is suspected of paying bribes to secure the winning bid, though he claims he did nothing wrong.
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Long gone are the days when German law counted bribes paid by the country's industrial champions as tax-deductible.
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Last year prosecutors accused him of accepting bribes, although he denies wrongdoing and Congress voted to reject the charges.
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Since then, Odebrecht has acknowledged distributing hundreds of millions in bribes across Latin America, including $29 million in Peru.
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Raul Schmidt Felipe Junior was wanted by Brazilian police since July 2015, accused of paying bribes to Petrobras' executives.
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Italian prosecutors accuse former and current executives of the two energy giants of paying bribes to secure the license.
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Italian prosecutors accuse former and current executives of the two energy giants of paying bribes to secure the licence.
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Park and Ms. Choi were accused of conspiring to collect tens of millions of dollars in bribes from businesses.
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During the campaign there were numerous reports of election officers taking bribes to help particular candidates or favouring relatives.
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The winner of that election, protest leader Lin Zuluan, was arrested earlier this year and charged with taking bribes.
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Their popularity stemmed not from their uniforms, body cameras and tablets, but the fact they did not demand bribes.
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The deal was canceled in 2014 after Orsi was arrested on suspicion of paying bribes to secure the deal.
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Yet prosecutors says doctors who took bribes often prescribed Subsys to patients without cancer, helping boost sales at Insys.
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The bribes were given in exchange for help with real estate projects, bank loans and promotions, the court said.
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Rivera Maradiaga, who admitted to murdering 78 people, testified that he paid bribes to multiple officials including President Hernandez.
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They're looking for voting history and seeing if there's an opportunity to influence future votes through bribes or threats.
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This week João Santana, her campaign guru, was arrested on suspicion that he was paid with money from bribes.
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Peru has also asked the United States to extradite former president Alejandro Toledo, who is accused of receiving bribes.
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In the letter he said some of them were offered bribes and ministerial jobs to support the new government.
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Many other matchmakers at the time took bribes from managers to provide their fighters with padding for their record.
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Burzaco also said that Fox Sports, Mexico's Grupo Televisa and Brazil's Globo paid bribes for media rights to games.
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Prosecutors claim that Yuri Lebedev helped arrange bribes to pastor Trevon Gross, including $150,000 in donations to his church.
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Lorenzo, who prosecutors said received bribes himself from Ng, said payments were also made to other unnamed foreign officials.
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Federal prosecutors allege that Hodge paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for his daughters' admission into USC.
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Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, are accused of paying bribes to gain their daughters' college admissions.
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Some of those bribes were also transferred as campaign donations to politicians with close links to Petrobras, they said.
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Unlicensed hawkers often have to pay policemen bribes to continue selling, and must flee eviction drives by city officials.
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Odebrecht admitted in a settlement with U.S. and Brazilian prosecutors to paying bribes across 12 countries to win contracts.
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Authorities said the intermediaries included Lorenzo, who prosecutors said also received bribes from Ng, and Jeff Yin, Ng's assistant.
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Federal prosecutors said he arranged bribes on behalf of a Chinese energy company that funds an organization he leads.
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The filing states the bribes were paid to Brian Bennett, who has pleaded guilty in a separate criminal case.
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Payoffs and bribes are the price of doing business, an invisible line in the budget that usually goes unchecked.
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Mr. Cunha, who is accused of taking as much as $40 million in bribes, had overseen the impeachment proceedings.
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And Renan Calheiros, the Senate leader, is under investigation over claims that he received bribes in the scandal, too.
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Out of that group, 55 percent said accepting bribes or favors from foreign governments would be the most serious.
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Last month, the lower house rejected a prior corruption charge Temer faced, that he took bribes from JBS officials.
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In testimony last month, Alejandro Burzaco said that Dominguez's predecessor Juan Angel Napout asked for bribes on his behalf.
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Three more people were accused of giving bribes and a further two others for money laundering, the STA said.
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Lee is accused of paying bribes to an advisor of President Park Geun-hye in exchange for political favors.
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Filed in 2010 by a former employee, Steven C. Jacobs, it contains allegations of bribes to officials in Macau.
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The firm originally disclosed that it was under investigation for bribes that it made in Libya, Congo and Zimbabwe.
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Getting into college unfairly through bribes and getting a job unfairly through grade inflation both are immoral and unjust.
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Previous governments have taken steps to fight corruption but the drive has mostly led to prosecution of petty bribes.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Large billboards at Lagos airport urge travelers to call a hotline to report officials asking for bribes.
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Mr. Howe told investigators that Mr. Percoco did this so he could pressure Mr. Aiello later for more bribes.
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The official, Xu Yuan'an, "shoulders important responsibilities for the accident" because he had taken bribes, the council's report said.
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In April, Eni said it had not paid any intermediary or any bribes to acquire the OPL 245 oilfield.
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"It is a case about a man who sold his office, soliciting bribes from the highest bidder," Wzorek said.
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The class action also asserts consumer claims against the universities whose coaches accepted bribes in exchange for admissions slots.
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There is also his wife, Monica, a former city councilwoman in Detroit who did prison time for accepting bribes.
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A regional state police enquiry into the alleged bribes has been launched, according to a document seen by Reuters.
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In October, Florida businessman Fernando Ardila Rueda pleaded guilty to his role in paying bribes to employees at PDVSA.
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He also allegedly demanded the provision of luxury sedans and chauffeur services to his family members, and received bribes.
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Those bribes were allegedly originally arranged by Rashan Michel, a former NBA official who now runs a clothing company.
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Prosecutors have charged him with taking at least $1 million in bribes and depositing them in an offshore account.
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Yet prosecutors claimed doctors who took bribes often prescribed Subsys to patients without cancer, helping boost sales for Insys.
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The MTE routinely subcontracts extraction tasks to private companies and accept bribes in exchange for over-extraction of timber.
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The law bars U.S. companies and some other entities from paying bribes to foreign government officials to obtain business.
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Brazil's federal police force says it has found evidence that embattled President Michel Temer received bribes to help businesses.
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His lawyer, Aaron Goldsmith, told jurors Monday that prosecutors did not have the evidence to prove he took bribes.
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Bribes sometimes went through as many as four shell bank accounts before arriving at the final destination, authorities said.
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Daniel Och paid $2.2 million in the SEC settlement, though the agency said he wasn't aware of the bribes.
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At a third, a coaching assistant is said to have sought bribes from people seeking access to his players.
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Her parents paid bribes to keep her in her old school, but it left her a painfully shy outsider.
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In a statement, Globo vehemently denied making bribes and said it was willing to cooperate with United States authorities.
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But over time such gains are being outweighed by the social costs of bribes, wasteful expenditures and growing inequities.
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About seven of them surrounded me, tried to grab my bag, and told me they wanted money in bribes.
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" Sometimes bribes would be distributed in the form of "Rolex watches, $3,20183 bottles of wine, yachts, helicopters and prostitutes.
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No members of the Supreme Court have been formally accused of receiving bribes or manipulating decisions to favor allies.
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Boeing continued to pursue the venture even after being advised that its partner's plans included paying bribes, records show.
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Big names in the finance world are accused of paying bribes to get their children into top schools, too.
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I'm just saying, if you're paying $1.2 billion in bribes, what does that say about your child's academic abilities?
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In its settlement with other countries, Odebrecht acknowledged paying millions in bribes to officials at the Mexican oil company.
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Every month, he said, for more than a decade, he had personally paid $300,000 in bribes to Mexican officials.
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The first week of the federal FIFA trial featured revelations about corporate bribes, government corruption and vote-buying schemes.
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His path was greased by grand construction projects, driven less by necessity than by political expedience, and financial bribes.
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Prosecutors have accused Ms. Heinel of taking bribes in exchange for falsely presenting applicants as athletes, facilitating their admission.
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Police in Brazil have launched raids to investigate alleged bribes paid to conceal unsanitary conditions in Brazil's meatpacking facilities.
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Investigators say Mr. Cabral and his conspirators accepted bribes from some of the companies involved in the Petrobras scandal.
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Two former prison officials told the panel they had delivered 5 million pesos in bribes to De Lima's home.
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In the judicial system, a judge that takes bribes may be tried and punished just like any other citizen.
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In those conversations, which took place eight years earlier, they discussed bribes paid to top politicians and senior prosecutors.
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She also allegedly agreed to meet in person to discuss the details "of bribes" rather than on a phone.
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But the one organization that would never bring itself to admit that bribes had been paid was FIFA itself.
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Odebrecht admitted late last year that it had paid bribes totaling $29 million in Peru between 2005 and 2014.
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People also paid bribes to the tax department, transport office, municipal corporations, and other local authorities, the report found.
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In addition to Morocco, Angola and Saudi Arabia, the company also paid bribes in Spain, the Justice Department said.
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In 2015, a Maryland judge sentenced Mikerin to four years in prison for laundering money connected to the bribes.
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The tax authority said 22 million reais ($5.85 million) in bribes may have been paid to politicians and officials.
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He told local radio station RPP that Odebrecht had "disqualified itself from working with the Peruvians" by paying bribes.
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The sentencing followed a trial where he was accused of paying bribes to gain government favors for the conglomerate.
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Prosecutors accused Odebrecht of paying bribes to secure contracts with some of the 186 municipalities where the utility operates.
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Had Mr. Lichtenstein corrupted the police officers who accepted bribes, or did the officers deserve more of the blame?
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He told her how he had been in charge of distributing envelopes filled with cash for reporters as bribes.
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A video confession surfaced on Chinese websites and social media in April in which Ma admitted to accepting bribes.
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He accepted bribes on three occasions in exchange for agreeing to release three of an attorney's clients on bond.
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They say that hopeful officials representing potential host cities paid bribes to African Olympic committee members to win support.
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Prosecutors also allege that high-ranking Turkish government officials were involved and took millions of dollars worth of bribes.
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The politicians who have taken and made bribes, dodged taxes, and amassed fortunes of unimaginable scale are your politicians.
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Months after Meng's disappearance, Chinese prosecutors filed charges against him, accusing him of abuse of power and taking bribes.
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" Sometimes bribes would be distributed in the form of "Rolex watches, $3,000 bottles of wine, yachts, helicopters and prostitutes.
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Although Homeland Security employees who have been caught taking bribes represent less than 1 percent of the more than 250,5503 people who work at the department, investigators say the bribes and small numbers of people arrested and charged with bribery obscure the impact corruption can have on border security and immigration enforcement.
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In another case from 2016, Gao Xuezhong, the president of a hospital in Anhui Province, was convicted of taking bribes from a Siemens sales contractor and from a Siemens sales manager named in court as Mr. An. The bribes included cash as well as homes for Mr. Gao's wife and for his daughter.
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Siri has been placed under investigation last month for allegedly accepting bribes to promote the interests of renewable energy firms.
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The probe is investigating alleged bribes paid by toll road operators to modify contracts in the southern state of Paraná.
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"If you get caught and don't have bribes to pay, you could get executed, just like my relatives," she said.
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The FBI says Person would use a portion of the bribes to pay off the families of high-priority recruits.
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Lee is accused of pledging 43 billion won ($38 million) in bribes to a company and foundations controlled by Choi.
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However, U.S. authorities accused Low of siphoning billions of dollars from the fund and leveraging the cash to pay bribes.
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According to prosecutors, one of the bribes included a $900,000 horse for Soon-sil's daughter, The New York Times reported.
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Last week, former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was charged with 45 offences including money laundering and accepting bribes.
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I had to look up what this was, and apparently it's a fund for doing illegal things like paying bribes.
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NAB disclosed in documents that some employees accepted over-the-counter cash bribes to facilitate loans based on fake documents.
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He pleaded guilty in the case for taking bribes to help get the children of wealthy parents get into Stanford.
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But they haven't really hurt the large, organized networks behind the trade, who've just adjusted to new bribes and routes.
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In a January ruling, all three appellate court judges voted to uphold Lula's convictions on taking bribes and money laundering.
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The company admitted to paying bribes to officials in 12 countries, mostly in Latin America, to help secure lucrative contracts.
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Bribes were also paid to speed up the process, they said, adding that more than 20,000 applications had been delayed.
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The second round of bribes, negotiated with Media World in 33, covered commercial rights to Guatemala's 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
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In a separate complaint, prosecutors have charged three mobile phone company operators with accepting bribes as part of the crime.
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He accepted bribes totaling $270,000 from two prospective students, neither of whom wound up attending Stanford, according to court records.
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Authorities also indicted prominent college athletic leaders for allegedly accepting bribes and helping to fabricate athlete profiles for the teenagers.
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Several prominent college coaches have also pleaded guilty for taking bribes to admit students under the guise of athletic capability.
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In the Dominican Republic (bribes of $92m), Ecuador ($33.5m) and Venezuela ($98m), authorities are moving slowly, or not at all.
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The National Democratic Congress (NDC), which was in power at the time, said claims that Airbus paid bribes were false.
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Soccer, Blazer made clear, was populated by two kinds of people: those who took bribes, and those who paid them.
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Earlier this month, Lin withdrew his confession of taking bribes and kickbacks over local building projects, Hong Kong media reported.
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They said Aiello and Gerardi paid bribes through shell companies to get favorable treatment for development of a parking lot.
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It quoted participants as saying that Mr Meng was being investigated for allegedly taking bribes and for other unspecified wrongdoing.
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Netanyahu and his wife allegedly took bribes from Shaul Elovitz, a telecommunications tycoon who controls Israel's biggest telecom company, Bezeq.
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While in charge of cartel operations in Mexico City, Zambada said, he personally paid about $300,000 in bribes every month.
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Odebrecht agreed to pay 3.9 billion reais (US$1.2 billion) in fines after admitting to paying bribes for state contracts.
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Its brigades already display factional flags, run several secret prisons and raise money by extorting bribes at gunpoint at checkpoints.
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No more would they be dragged to police stations and shaken down for bribes to avoid six-month jail terms.
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Since then, several nations where Odebrecht has admitted to paying bribes are also seeking to levy fines against the company.
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The National Democratic Congress (NDC), which was in power at the time, said claims that Airbus paid bribes were false.
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Odebrecht is at the center of Latin America's biggest graft scandal having admitted to paying bribes from Peru to Panama.
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The police say Ms de Lima took bribes from drug-traffickers; Ms de Lima says she is a political prisoner.
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Then there is U.S. army Captain Brian Williams, he was sentence to three years for taking bribes while in Baghdad.
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The rice exporter lists 219 separate agencies that insist on receiving bribes, ranging from civil defence to health and safety.
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Bribes were buying unconstitutional acts, such as a motion to remove a democratically elected president, a right only parliament reserves.
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But despite round after round of negotiations, threats, sanctions, bribes and blandishments, these programs have not stopped but have accelerated.
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That will mean larger trucks, longer journeys and less time stuck at internal borders (or paying bribes to speed through).
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Alejandro Toledo has reportedly fled to the United States to avoid trial on corruption charges for taking bribes from Odebrecht.
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But hopefully, as lawmakers start seeing their faces alongside the figures for their legal bribes, they'll start having second thoughts.
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Their investigations have exposed conflicts of interest, abuse of power, fraud and awarding of state contracts in exchange for bribes.
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That at least one university administrator and several coaches are accused of accepting bribes to funnel children into their school.
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Yang Gang, who was indicted for accepting bribes last year, served as party secretary of Urumqi between 1999 and 2006.
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"I have been charged with taking bribes without ever having received a cent," Temer said in a nationally televised speech.
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Federal prosecutors accused Casado of taking between $73,000 and $50,000 in bribes from "Inmate-1," typically through the unidentified lawyer.
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Italian authorities have 36,000 hours of wiretaps, as well as secret video recordings of some of the accused receiving bribes.
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Rivera Maradiaga, who admitted to murdering 78 people, testified that he paid bribes to multiple officials including Juan Orlando Hernandez.
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Manuel Chang, Mozambique's former finance minister, secretly had the country's government guarantee the loans in exchange for bribes, prosecutors said.
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Leaders of the centrist parties backing Alckmin are under investigation for payments in the sprawling Petrobras bribes and kickbacks scandal.
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President Jacob Zuma said last month a system of "bribes for permits" poses a serious security risk for the country.
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Odebrecht agreed with Peruvian prosecutors in February to pay $228 million as civil compensation for bribes in four public works.
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Ng, 68, and Yin, 30, face charges including conspiracy to pay bribes and gratuities and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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The charges were connected to 3.7 million reais' ($1.1 million) worth of bribes received from OAS through the beachfront apartment.
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Those bribes, Lorenzo admitted, were paid to Ashe to seek U.N. support of a U.N.-sponsored conference center in Macau.
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Investigations into the Salt Lake scandal also found that IOC members took bribes during bidding for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Ex-minister Zafer Caglayan was also charged with taking bribes in cash and jewellery worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Around 50 politicians, mostly from Rousseff's coalition, are under investigation for possibly taking bribes in Brazil's largest-ever corruption investigation.
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Federal prosecutors accused Casado of taking between $45,000 and $50,000 in bribes from "Inmate-1," typically through the unidentified lawyer.
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The government said in 2014 that Xu had also confessed to taking "massive" bribes in exchange for help in promotions.
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At least $1.7 million of that money was bribes paid by German technology company Siemens AG, according to Senate investigators.
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As Tanaka's stature in Japanese politics grew, so did the size of his bribes: eventually he needed large metal suitcases.
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His replacement, Waldir Maranhão, is accused of taking bribes in the enormous graft scheme surrounding the national oil company, Petrobras.
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Netanyahu is simultaneously under scrutiny for allegations that he accepted bribes and made deals to receive more positive media coverage.
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Perez and former Vice President Roxana Baldetti are accused of receiving hundreds of bribes for public contracts during their administration.
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"I much prefer to get bribes from the Koch Brothers and other right-wing billionaires," @SenatorCollins continued (probably) https://t.
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Yu is suspected of taking bribes, the prosecutor said without giving further details, adding that the investigation was in progress.
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The court in Jilin province said that between 2001 and 2015, Lu took bribes worth 18.8 million yuan ($2.73 million).
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Lula was imprisoned in 2018 after being found guilty of receiving bribes from construction companies in return for public contracts.
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Lula was imprisoned in 2018 after being found guilty of taking bribes from construction firms in return for public contracts.
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Park, the country's first female president, was ousted in March and later charged with abuse of power and accepting bribes.
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This month Mr Glas was detained on suspicion of taking bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction firm (which he denies).
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The firms have admitted paying massive bribes to politicians and former executives at state-run companies in return for contracts.
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"He takes bribes and [participates] in so many illegal activities," said Frank Nsiina, an operator of Save the Aids Generation.
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For their services, the Mexican government officials collected bribes from more than $1 million set aside each month, Zambada said.
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England lost out in its bid to Russia, and Steele determined that the Kremlin had rigged the process with bribes.
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Prosecutors alleged in court documents that Vandemoer accepted $610,000 in bribes to facilitate the admissions of students as salinity recruits.
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Other witnesses claimed the cartel paid bribes to former president Felipe Calderon and to a former aide of Lopez Obrador.
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This past September, Figueredo was accused of taking bribes, wire fraud, and money laundering, and was charged by US authorities.
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He could secure what amount to bribes from foreign and domestic leaders in exchange for favorable policy or regulatory treatment.
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If they are caught by officials from the North, bribes are virtually the only way to avoid prison, or worse.
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General Guo "candidly confessed" to taking bribes, it said in coverage of the case written in question-and-answer form.
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Prosecutors allege that Cunha took as much as $22016 million in bribes and hid it in a Swiss bank account.
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This, of course, came right after a Sunday Times undercover sting that captured FIFA ExCo members soliciting bribes on camera.
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She bribes some sailor with two bags of coins, and is relishing her newfound freedom when an old lady approaches.
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White allegedly received bribes from one of the criminals who was part of "The Community," according to a criminal complaint.
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The report says six Odebrecht projects were subject to overpricing, commissions, bribes, and poor planning, and also ran over budget.
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Ex-minister Zafer Caglayan was also charged with taking bribes in cash and jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars.
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The two men flooded the city with ads and, it seems, bribes; Lyman paid off editors to gin up interest.
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Mr. Molinaro singled out Joseph Percoco, the Cuomo aide who was convicted of accepting bribes, among other charges, in March.
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They are accused of taking part in a scheme spanning 24 years and involving at least $150 million in bribes.
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Ms. Park also solicited $6.5 million in bribes from the hotel chain and shopping mall giant Lotte, the court found.
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"We think the authorities get bribes from this company," said Khan Mao, a farmer and English tutor from Srah Chhouk.
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"We don't have petty corruption any more, like police asking for bribes," said Eka Gigauri of Transparency International in Tbilisi.
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MUMBAI, India — A jeans maker saw his delivery costs cut by half when the highway police stopped asking for bribes.
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American prosecutors say Odebrecht paid $33.5 million in bribes in Ecuador as part of a worldwide scheme to win business.
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Goldman's former top banker in Asia, Timothy Leissner, pleaded guilty in August, describing his role in concealing bribes and kickbacks.
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Meanwhile, two colleges whose coaches were accused of taking bribes said they were considering disciplining students connected to the scheme.
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Freebies, no-show jobs and bribes: The former Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano has been found guilty of graft.
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Georgetown has said that it knew nothing about the bribes described by prosecutors and did not find any criminal activity.
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He allegedly accepted $25 million in bribes from wealthy parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, from 2011-18.
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At a third, a top assistant set up a similar arrangement, promising to trade his access to players for bribes.
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The judges handling Ms. Choi's case on Tuesday, however, said that Mr. Lee had indeed paid $6.7 million in bribes.
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Netanyahu are among hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes that the police, in February, accused her husband of accepting.
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Some recount stories of patients arrested while trying to reach government hospitals or made to pay bribes at each checkpoint.
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Prosecutors say Mr. Lee and top Samsung executives paid $38 million in bribes to maintain that control without paying taxes.
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According to the complaint, bribes paid to practitioners who prescribed large amounts of the drug exceeded $200,000 in some cases.
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Power outages are frequent and the only contact with officials is when they visit for bribes, say residents and traders.
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Prosecutors said Reyes received bribes from the El Seguimiento 39 cartel in exchange for helping shield its drug trafficking activities.
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Tanker men field so many demands for bribes that they sometimes keep wads of cash on hand for that purpose.
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The charges were connected to 3.7 million reais' worth of bribes ($1.1 million) received from OAS through the beachfront apartment.
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"It's just so unfair that American companies aren't allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas," Trump reportedly told Tillerson.
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The ex-president, who has denied taking any bribes, was in France on Saturday, though his current whereabouts are unknown.
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Investigators are focusing on bribes paid to Sérgio Cabral, the former governor of Rio de Janeiro, where Petrobras is based.
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His proposals range from ending anonymous American shell companies to criminalizing the actions of those demanding bribes of Americans abroad.
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Prosecutors, who arrested ruling party MP Tsukasa Akimoto on suspicion of taking bribes on Wednesday, have not named the company.
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He admitted that those contributions — as well as direct bribes given to police officials — were a means to gain influence.
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Japanese prosecutors last month arrested Tsukasa Akimoto, previously a senior vice minister overseeing casino policy, on suspicion of taking bribes.
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Other individuals arrested include managers, financial advisors and an executive of German footwear maker Adidas, on charges of paying bribes.
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The ban reinforced President Xi Jinping's campaign against corrupt officials, who have been known to use ivory products as bribes.
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The National Assembly's impeachment bill alleged that Ms. Park solicited bribes from Samsung and other conglomerates, which she has denied.
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Milan prosecutors allege bribes were paid to win the license to explore the field, which has never entered into production.
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A Facebook contractor accepted thousands of dollars in bribes from an ad agency, according to a report from BuzzFeed News.
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Milan prosecutors allege bribes were paid to win the license to explore the field which has never entered into production.
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An estimated $4.6 billion is paid each year in bribes -- that's more than the federal and state education budgets combined.
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Prosecutors, who arrested ruling party MP Tsukasa Akimoto on suspicion of taking bribes on Wednesday, have not named the company.
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The local prosecutor of Lufeng City said Lin had accepted a substantial amount in bribes for village projects since 2012.
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Ms. Choi's father, Choi Tae-min, was accused of using his influence with Ms. Park to collect bribes from businesses.
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He shouted to a waiting camera crew that the inspector had for years solicited bribes, most recently of 200,000 rupees.
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The scandal has increased calls for President Dilma Rousseff's ouster though she is not under investigation for taking bribes herself.
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Four U.S.C. athletic officials are charged with taking bribes in the scheme, more than are named at any other institution.
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Former assistant coach Tony Bland pleaded guilty in January to accepting bribes to steer U.S.C. players to certain financial advisers.
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