Sentence examples for bribe worth from inspiring English sources

The money is allegedly the second instalment of a bribe worth $700,000.

She said that even legitimate projects could often be won only by using this system, with the average "bribe" worth 10 to 30 percent of the project cost.

The official news agency, Xinhua, said Mr Zhou was found guilty of accepting a bribe worth 731,100 yuan $117,7500) from Jiang Jiemin, a former oil executive who was later put in charge of overseeing the state's assets.

See articleEhud Olmert, Israel's prime minister in 2006-09, wasentenceded to six years in jail for taking a bribe worth $145,000 when he was mayor of Jerusalem in 1993-2003.

When she was murdered, Ms. Shaariibuu was reportedly seeking her share of a commission — the opposition calls it a bribe — worth €115 million, or $155 million, paid by a French company as part of the government's deal to buy submarines.

"I believe in my heart that I am innocent and I will be vindicated by a jury of my peers," said Mr. Rodriguez, who was accused two weeks ago of soliciting a bribe worth more than $1.5 million in exchange for his approval on bringing a Fairway supermarket to Red Hook, Brooklyn.

According to news accounts, Ms. Shaariibuu had been seeking her share of a commission — the opposition calls it a bribe — worth about $155 million, paid by a French company as part of a deal reached by the government to buy submarines.

Meanwhile politicians and officials are reckoned to have taken bribes worth between $4 billion and $12 billion during Congress's tenure.

Official investigations continue into allegations that bribes worth more than 2bn rand were paid to individuals and the party itself.

Although it found him culpable for taking bribes worth $3.2 million, it said there was insufficient evidence concerning the air travel, which it said was worth about $218,000.

After he lost presidential immunity when his second term ended and the Nationalists returned to power, prosecutors convicted him of money laundering and accepting bribes worth about $17 million.