But he did not report Mr Rywin's alleged demand for a bribe, as required by law.
Ones that are created just for this transaction, either through collusion or as a front for a bribe-payer.
The first time I remember being asked for a bribe was in India while working on a real estate deal.
But having Americans on board the bus made it easy for police to either assume the Maldonados were the smugglers, or to target them for a bribe.
In the newspaper report, 360 Aviation executive director Barry Oberholzer said he believed he was being asked for a bribe during a meeting with Ms. Mtshali, a businesswoman.
O'Brien hotly denies he did so and says that at Digicel--incredibly given the countries it's doing business in--he's never been asked for a bribe, much less greased any palms.
Israel's state prosecutor recommended that the country's prime minister, Ariel Sharon , be tried for accepting a bribe.
Prosecutors scoffed at such a possibility, noting that Mans had already faked his own kidnapping, offered a bribe for his release, and sent police on a wild goose-chase pertaining to the diamonds.
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Mr. Bansal's nephew was arrested last week by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly accepting a bribe to ensure the promotion of a railway official.
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In a third case, he could be charged for alleged bribe-taking from a large Spanish bank.
Lurking behind Mr Ibrahim's worthy aims is the niggling sense that the money amounts to an annual bribe - a bribe for not accepting bribes - dangled like a fat carrot in front of the continent's elites, in the hope of steering them towards the sort of behaviour that should surely be taken for granted.
The cooperating witness was previously a candidate for the Assembly, and had pleaded guilty to a scheme to bribe the unnamed Assemblyman, according to the complaint.
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The great economist Joseph Schumpeter recognized that profit wasn't a bribe but a necessity for progress.
The multinationals' involuntary cartel has its origin in America's 20-year-old Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which made it a criminal offence for American companies to bribe foreign officials.
John O'Shea, the 57-year-old former general manager of the Texas unit of ABB, was arrested last week for his alleged role in a conspiracy to bribe Mexican government officials and get business from the Comision Federal de Electricidad, or CFE.
But the charges a Democratic state senator schemed to bribe his way into the GOP race for New York City mayor are playing out on a big political stage.
The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime for US corporations and their subsidiaries to bribe foreign officials, and some other large US companies have found themselves on the wrong side of the law.
Allen had been the CEO of the Alaska oilfield services company VECO, and federal prosecutors accused him of leading a scheme to bribe top lawmakers in exchange for favorable state action.
The Obama Administration is attempting to bribe states by financing all of the expansion for a few years, with an assist from the hospitals and other providers lobbying for more money from Uncle Sugar.
Mr. Savino, who is accused of accepting a bribe, and his attorney didn't return calls for comment Wednesday.
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Federal investigators, who had been working on a case against Mr Blagojevich for several years, charged him last Tuesday with a number of offences, including soliciting a bribe.
To hear McAfee, who is not a suspect, tell it: He's a man on the run, afraid for his life, from authorities who he has been at odds with since refusing to pay a bribe to a politician months earlier.
Prosecutors say Mr. Smith and Mr. Halloran tried to bribe Republican officials into giving Mr. Smith a spot on the party's ticket for mayor, in a wide-ranging plot that eventually ensnared half a dozen New York politicians and has raised questions about the scale of corruption in Albany.
The case came to light when four men were arrested and accused of trying to bribe the victim and her boyfriend to get them to drop the case against Weberman, a spokesman for the district attorney said.
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