The word 'blackmailing' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a verb meaning to demand payment by threatening to reveal damaging or embarrassing information about someone. Example: The criminal held the business owner hostage by blackmailing him with incriminating photographs.
There may be few people in Washington or London who really seek a global data empire through blackmailing the world's population; but hoovering intelligence on millions of private individuals extends far beyond the needs of national security, beyond the needs even of normal police work.
Some say this was because the outgoing regime was blackmailing him to ensure a smooth switch from power to wealth and back again.
Prosecutors said the victim had been blackmailing Mr Soren about alleged corruption.Environmentally awareAmerica's Supreme Court listened to arguments in what is seen as the most important case it has yet heard on climate change.
Another factor, though hardly a justification for murder, is that many local hacks are shysters, given to raking up (or making up) dirt on local dignitaries, and then blackmailing them to keep it under wraps.
The Afghan government, for its part, sees the hand of foreign intelligence services (Pakistan and Iran) bribing and blackmailing army and police recruits into violence.All these theories may have elements of truth.
"YOUR problem has been taken care of…rest easy though, because he won't be blackmailing anyone again.
But Vjosa Dobruna, chairman of the board of directors of RTK, says that "the government is blackmailing us.
Mr Riaz alleges that he was the victim of "blackmailing" by Mr Iftikhar, who he claims offered to fix cases for the tycoon in return for cash and lavish holidays to London and Monte Carlo.
The army colonel sent to investigate the case in 2011 is alleged to have made tens of millions of dollars blackmailing Ferrominera's managers and Mr Mustafá.
Philip Marlowe, the cynical private detective portrayed by Bogart, is hired by the wealthy General Sternwood (played by Charles Waldron) to investigate the person who has been blackmailing him over the gambling debts of his promiscuous but childish daughter Carmen Martha Vickerss).
A former boyfriend of socialite and model Tamara Ecclestone was today jailed for four years for blackmailing the heiress for £200,000.
