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A former federal corrections officer has pleaded guilty to taking bribes in exchange for providing illegal contraband to people detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park.
Source: https://www.brooklynpaper.com/federal-corrections-officer-pleads-guilty/
And then there were the bribes he took from an organized crime figure.
Artisanal cobalt is bought on-site from the miners by roving traders, some former miners who’ve amassed enough capital to pay for a motorcycle or pickup, along with the bribes and permits necessary to pass through checkpoints.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/books/review/cobalt-red-siddharth-kara.html
A whistleblower on Tuesday alleged that some security guards at the O2 Brixton Academy in London regularly accepted bribes to allow people in without tickets.
Source: https://punchng.com/guards-at-asakes-uk-concert-took-bribes-report/
BANGKOK — A military court in has sentenced a general who until recently was a senior member of the country’s ruling council to five years in prison for abusing his authority and taking bribes, state-run media reported Saturday.
Biden was withholding much-needed aid to Ukraine in exchange for bribes for Shokin’s removal, Shokin believes.
Former Fox executive Hernan Lopez (second from right) leaves federal court after his conviction for paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to nab broadcasting rights to the World Cup and other top soccer matches Thursday in New York.
Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/03/10/split-verdict-for-ex-fox-execs-in-soccer-rights-bribe-case/
For South Africa, the sums of bribes were quite large, we are talking about a total of $350 million of bribes paid to senior politicians, senior officials, senior corporate executives and of course intermediaries.
For South Africa, the sums of bribes were quite large, we are talking about a total of $350 million of bribes paid to senior politicians, senior officials, senior corporate executives and of course intermediaries.
Granger had argued that he needed first to increase his and his ministers’ salaries in order to remove the temptation of bribes.
Hana’s company was used to send bribes payments to a business set up by Menendez’s wife called Strategic International Business Consultants, LLC, prosecutors allege.
Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1835809/new-indictment-of-sen-menendez-alleges-vast-corruption
He paid bribes to evade visa controls at the airport, boarded a flight to Rio de Janeiro and, somewhere over the Atlantic, threw his fake passport in the lavatory trash.
Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/05/21/exodus-to-the-pine-tree-state/
He went first to his home city of Matadi, a port 200 miles to the southwest, and then paid bribes to slip across the adjacent border with Angola.
Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/05/21/exodus-to-the-pine-tree-state/
However, Will also learns that the conspiracy is essentially an open secret at the facility; his fellow marshals are all aware of it and collect handsome bribes to keep their heads turned the other way, and everyone expects him to do the same.
Source: https://collider.com/why-outland-is-a-good-remake-high-noon/
In 2016, CalCoastNews first reported allegations that former SLO County Supervisor Adam Hill was asking marijuana business owners to pay bribes in return for favorable votes.
Source: https://calcoastnews.com/2023/03/helios-dayspring-released-from-federal-prison/
In 2018, an aspiring senator, who lost in the elections, accused 10 MPs of soliciting and accepting bribes amounting to E200 000 with the promise that they would vote her into Senate.
Source: http://www.times.co.sz/news/139855-mp-election-losers-to-contest-for-senate-seats.html
In a related development, the Malawi Police Service arrested two of its officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on corruption charges for allegedly receiving bribes from Burundian nationals to influence release of confiscated property.
In one of the video clips, a Punjab Home Guard (PHG) Bahadar Singh, who was attached with Dhaliwal, is purportedly heard saying he used to collect bribes on the officer’s behalf from transporters and hand over the amount to the officer every month.
Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders, or take bribes.
Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/playstation-ps-plus-free-games-disco-elysium/
Kyari alone was also charged with attempting to obstruct officials of the NDLEA in the conduct of their activities by offering them bribes.