International rankings of bribe-payers list Chinese managers near the top.
The police topped the list of bribe recipients.
Traffic police use the highway code as a price list for bribes.
Some of his community bribed the authorities to list them as pure Burmese, he says.
But there is a long waiting list, and bribes to city councilors helped people jump the line.
Companies from Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria and Canada topped TI's list of bribe-payers last year, despite the introduction of anti-corruption laws to comply with an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development convention banning bribery of foreign officials.
One night, when Jonah hadn't touched his dinner, they were asking him if he would like something else to eat, and, because he wasn't answering, and really had not been answering for some weeks now, other than in one-word responses, curt and formal, Martin and Rachel abandoned their usual rules, the guideposts of parenting they'd clung to, and moved through a list of bribes.
(The pair were doomed during a lunch when Cunningham diagrammed on his own congressional stationery a fatal list of bribes he'd received from Wade and the corresponding federal contracts he'd steered his way in exchange).
More ethics is always good, probably, but we should not count on grafters to suddenly start listing "bribes" under "other income" on financial-disclosure forms.
For example, the presidents of four of the bus companies said to have paid bribes were also listed as the presidents of seven other bus companies with city contracts, though those companies were not named in the court papers.
