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At one point, the sheikh put the bribe directly to Williams: "I would like to give you... some money for, for permanent residence".
No high-level official dealing with licenses ever accepts a bribe directly, said Raichand Jiwani, owner of Emkay Consultancy Services, who helps several top Indian retailers procure licenses.
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The company also says that in 2000 "Shell companies reported four instances in which a total of seven employees were detected soliciting/accepting bribes directly or indirectly.
Mr. Bo is accused, among other things, of abusing his power in the case of a British businessman who the authorities say was killed by Mr. Bo's wife, and of taking "massive bribes" directly and through his family, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.
The Department of Justice alleges that the $600,000 in super PAC contributions earmarked to re-elect Menendez were bribes directly connected to Menendez's support in the Medicare billing dispute.
But this went beyond financial embezzlement and bribes and directly on to the field of play.
Xinhua said Ling was convicted of taking $11.57 million in bribes, either directly or through his wife and son.
Parameter β measures the difference between two effects, the leader's revenue that comes from bribes paid directly to the leader, not indirectly via the bureaucracy, minus the linear part of the cost of corruption (e.g., from enforcement risk).
Experts in drug trafficking say that drug movements through Venezuela are aided by corruption and that in many cases government officials and members of the armed forces have gone beyond taking bribes to become directly involved in trafficking.
At a news conference, the investigators took pains to explain how the cost of the alleged bribes was passed directly on to Chinese consumers, the BBC's Celia Hatton reports.
While residents have reported receiving cash directly, outright bribes are delivered more discreetly.
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