That it hasn't paid bribe to the officials?

He is suspected of pocketing repeated bribes in exchange for public contracts.

Awlad Ali and the other tribes refused the generous bribes offered to them.

The incidence of bribery was high, with a staggering 42 of reported bribes paid to the judiciary.

Others felt that changing a name required too much bureaucratic hassle and under the table payments.

Others have demonstrated leadership in pursuing companies that pay kickbacks and bribes to foreign officials.

Instead of the state being strengthened, it is being reborn as a police bureaucratic apparatus to suppress social protest, extort bribes, and assure political repression.

Mutsolgov further claims that the methods to censor content vary from polite requests to remove material, offers of bribes, and occasionally concrete threats.

The companies routinely bribe officials to gain oil leases, lie about output, evade taxes, and dodge responsibility for the environmental damage that they cause.

The corruption tax (the percentage of sales paid in bribes) declined from 1.22 in 2002 to 0.7 in 2005.

Nigerian officials have become fabulously wealthy, owing to decades of payoffs by international companies that have plundered the delta s natural wealth.

Ozawa, the all powerful Secretary General of DPJ, has been accused of using party funds to buy real estate, and of receiving bribes from construction companies.

In Venezuela, importing spoiled food and letting it rot is more profitable than any investment anywhere else in the world (disregarding, of course, the bribes needed to make it happen).

Currently, many police devote their energies to shaking down citizens for bribes, and some moonlight in death squads.

The index of the frequency of paying bribes in 2005 was 2.03 in Poland, 2.22 in Slovakia, 2.09 in the Czech Republic, and 2.37 in Greece.

In Lepper's last speech as deputy speaker he accused many famous politicians of taking bribes, naming the amounts, times, and places where the bribery took place.

According to Ye Feng, a SPP Director General, a lmost every type of financial institution has seen the emergence of criminal cases involving the solicitation of bribes in return for loans.

For example, the index of the frequency of paying bribes, calculated by the World Bank and EBRD, was 2.7 in 1999 and 2.03 in 2005 (the value of 1 is the minimum).

Poor country governments probably accept more bribes and commit more offenses, but it is rich countries that host the global companies that carry out the largest offenses.

Progress through this squalid, but well manned, frontier post involved the stamping of lots of documents and a liberal scattering of bribes, a process repeated on leaving the republic.

Is it the result of widespread corruption, where each potential entrepreneur knows that whatever profits could be made will go toward both taxes and bribes?

Progress through this squalid, but well manned, frontier post involved the stamping of lots of documents and a liberal scattering of bribes, a process repeated on leaving the republic.

In 2007, 12 former deputies (including the former chairman of the Duma Pochtareva) were convicted of taking bribes for decisions in favor Rosvodokanal and other utilities.

The CCP s leaders have already decided that Bo is guilty and must spend years in jail (the scale of Bo s alleged bribe taking ensures a sentence of 15 20 years).

On the other hand...' he hesitated, 'it is a means of getting pelf for the provincial coterie! We used to have guardianships and judgeships as soft jobs, and now we've Zemstvos not bribes, but unearned salaries!' he went on as warmly as if he had just been contradicted.

J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank have paid substantial sums to settle charges ranging from bribery to illegal foreclosures to abetting tax evasion.

The staunchly pro American Saakashvili launched successful economic reforms and an all out assault on police corruption, though he, too, eventually was accused of taking bribes and indulging autocratic impulses.

Anton Nosik shares a link to RosKomVzyatka ('Russian Committee for Bribes'), Ushahidi based platform that allows users to map bribes (both given and taken) anonymously.

One of the most salient contributions to the debate was made by a lawyer, Sadanbekov, who suggested that in a country as corrupt as Kyrgyzstan the initiative would impose additional financial burdens in the form of bribes on girls who wishe to leave the country

Blogger and anti corruption activist Alexey Navalny has launched a new attack against five prominent Russian politicians, accusing them bribe taking and failing to declare vast property holdings that include opulent mansions located outside Moscow.

Why should the Greek people (not to mention the Irish and the Portuguese) accept years of austerity and slow growth for the sake of propping up the French and German banking systems, unless they are given huge bribes to do so?

In a series of new investigations, a network of investigative journalists have discovered the government of Azerbaijan was the driving force behind a 2.9 billion secret slush fund that may have helped it pay off European politicians.

A former minister in the Nazarbayev government, Zamanbek K. Nurkadilov, said that Nazarbayev should answer allegations that Kazakh officials had accepted millions of US dollars in bribes from an intermediary for U.S. oil firms in the 1990s.

Opposition Senator Jinggoy Estrada exposed DAP as the source of money used to bribe senators to impeach former Chief Justice Renato Corona.

BANGKOK Joseph Estrada, the disgraced former president of the Philippines, faces the prospect of spending his remaining years in prison after a special court in Manila found him guilty of amassing around US 15 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Shleifer s research looks at 75 countries and asks how many formal steps it takes to establish (legally and without bribes) a new company, how long it takes to do so, and what is the cost.

Moreover, not only was Zhen Xiaouyu executed, but Cao Wenzhuang, who was in charge of drug registration at the SFDA, was sentenced to death for accepting roughly 300,000 in bribes from drug manufacturers.

Cheating occurs because the government hasn't invested in personnel or in the systems to detect tax evaders, who rarely face jail time and can often bribe their way out of trouble when they do get caught.

Furthermore, charges that Bo received 20 million ( 3.2 million) in bribes and misappropriated 5 million are trivial compared to those leveled against Liu Zhijun. Thus, with his level of bribery deemed small, and his wife artfully scapegoated, the only high crime of which Bo stands accused is dereliction of duty.

The execution this week of the former head of China s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), Zhen Xiaoyu, who accepted almost 1 million in bribes, shows that the frenzy has now seeped into China as well.

Furthermore, charges that Bo received 20 million ( 3.2 million) in bribes and misappropriated 5 million are trivial compared to those leveled against Liu Zhijun.

When the player character collapses from his injuries or is arrested, he will re spawn at a local hospital or police station respectively, at the expense of losing all weapons and armour and an amount of money for medical expenses or bribes.