Another referee revealed that some club owners did not hesitate to use their influential positions in society to victimise referees who refused to accept bribes.

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They are among a raft of new regulations, which also include provision for sacking police officers who accept bribes, organise or take part in strikes and protest marches.

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That is, in the former case elected officials serving on public fund boards may accept bribes and in the latter, public pension investment decision-making may be tainted by political influence peddling.

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Felipe Calderon brought in the army to fight drug cartels when he took office in 2006 and promised to be tough on any officers who were found to accept bribes by drug gangs.

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On May 2nd the News of the World, a British Sunday tabloid, published an account of a sting operation in which John Higgins, the world's top-ranked snooker player, and his agent Patrick Mooney, appeared to agree to accept bribes in return for losing specific frames in future contests.

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