Mr Maduro said the government would not be blackmailed, and he called on Venezuelans to remain peaceful.
Mr. Ecclestone has acknowledged making the payment but said he did so only because he was blackmailed.
Xinhua news agency said the men were all allegedly filmed by a "criminal ring" which then blackmailed them.
Later, he suddenly and inexplicably reversed himself, leading some to wonder whether he might have been blackmailed or paid.
Last year, a British nurse was blackmailed by hackers who had used a Trojan to access her personal e-mails.
Are there any other situations that should be added to the list, for example, where a person is blackmailed?
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So why are we allowing ourselves to be blackmailed with our own money by those we've employed to serve us?
Sandra Abrams claimed she was being blackmailed, pointing to claims Pecile and Culicea had made to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Bill Howard said Staffordshire was being "blackmailed" into bringing in an academy.
Perhaps he was blackmailed routinely, had cash on hand for regular payouts.
After convening a special government meeting to discuss the issue, Mr Tusk said the government would not be blackmailed by the treaty's opponents.
The two fell out, with Berezovsky alleging that Abramovich blackmailed him into selling his Sibneft shares at a fraction of their market value.
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"You can't have Secret Service agents compromising themselves or putting themselves in a position where they could be threatened or blackmailed, " he said.
Individuals who hold security clearances and individuals that are interviewed as sources, are routinely asked is there anything you could be blackmailed about.
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"There can be no Europe 'a la carte', " and, although the EU needs to change, it "cannot allow itself to be blackmailed", he insists.
"We are just too tired of getting blackmailed all the time, " Zwelinzima Vavi, the General Secretary of COSATU, told the BBC's World Business Report.
Mr. Ecclestone acknowledged last year in court to paying Mr. Gribkowsky, but said it was because he felt he was being blackmailed by the banker.
Could this lead to him being compromised, ie blackmailed?
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It turns out that in addition to the potential for walk-ins by significant others and soul-crushing lack of self-respect in the morning, would-be Internet Lotharios now have to worry about being blackmailed.
It also argued that complainant anonymity should be maintained and that historical prosecutions should be allowed as "many who are abused are bullied, blackmailed and shamed into staying silent, often well into adulthood".
Second, the republics have already stated their willingess to cooperate in the control of nuclear weapons.... I don't think we should exaggerate this fear, and I don't think that we should be blackmailed by the threat.
Another eyebrow-raising moment comes with anecdotes from another octogenarian: Machado, who became the first ethnic model to grace the cover of Harper's Bazaar in 1959 after legendary fashion photographer Richard Avedon blackmailed the magazine's publisher into putting her on it.
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According to people close to the sport, if the German authorities charge Mr Ecclestone with a non-trivial offence in relation to the payment to Mr Gribkowsky, (which he has admitted making, though he says he was being blackmailed), he will be permanently removed as chief executive of Formula One Group.
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